Broken pipeline: US researchers say funding cut puts a generation of science at risk

Nuala Moran

Harvard President Drew Faust: “Suddenly, those who train in America have significant options elsewhere.”

Researchers at seven top US universities and biomedical research institutes have gone on the attack over five years of stagnating budgets at the National Institutes of Health, saying a young generation of scientists are at risk.

And one of the country’s leading scientists, Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, says the “criminal” cuts could undermine the country’s biotechnology industry.

Earlier this month restive scientists published a report warning the US stands to lose a generation of young researchers...

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