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FILE - Indiana Governor Mike Braun is joined by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, right, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz during a news conference in Indianapolis, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Hundreds of Harvard researchers have fallen victim to the freeze on funding by the Trump administration. The halt in federal funding has meant some of the world’s most prominent researchers exploring everything from opioid addiction to how diseases like cancer progress are laying off young researchers and shelving years or even decades of research. Some research might be lost forever. The funding cuts are part of a monthslong battle that the Trump administration has waged against some the country’s top universities. It has taken a particular hard and aggressive line against Harvard, freezing funding after the university rejected a series of demands from a federal antisemitism task force.

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FILE - Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, center, speaks during a news conference on Operation Warp Speed and COVID-19 vaccine distribution, Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington. Standing alongside Azar from left are Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Army Gen. Gustave Perna, chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)