Trump administration restored funding for main diabetes examine. The halt nonetheless stung
The Trump administration’s restoration of federal analysis funding to Columbia College has revived a landmark diabetes examine that has tracked sufferers for almost 30 years and vastly expanded understanding of the illness, its therapy, and its prevention.
The examine, which has been led by a Harvard Medical College professor because it started in 1996, was pressured to close down for almost 5 months after the Trump administration froze funding for Columbia, the supervisor of a federal grant distributed for Kind 2 diabetes analysis throughout the nation.
Scientists are jubilant on the alternative to renew their work, mentioned David Nathan, the Harvard researcher main the diabetes examine, however the funding halt set again the most recent part of the analysis: exploring potential connections between diabetes and dementia, together with Alzheimer’s illness.
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