Day by day, how Trump is roiling science and health By Usha Lee McFarlingApril 24, 2025

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/trump-100-days-timeline-science-health-nih-cdc-fda-hhs/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9MEw7ycDdFpRo4s9cXImXHH2w2DU3jdhMPEDygvSrDlaFA5Zoi6Y-KDJBNvBKukwS_CcSHU-CkjkdC9Bw18ulVqbJDIA&_hsmi=358428849&utm_content=358428849&utm_source=hs_email If you read this newsletter, I feel comfortable assuming that you have also struggled to follow the head-spinning series of events that have occurred in federal health agencies since President Donald Trump took office in January. We here at STAT definitely have! So, as we approach the 100-day mark, we are taking stock with a special report that elucidates how the partnership between the NIH and academia has crumbled, and examines the toll this has taken on five individuals. We’ve also put together a thorough timeline that illustrates the breadth of executive orders, legal actions and funding cuts that have defined the year's first quarter. A new STAT analysis by Megan Molteni, Emory Parker and Jonathan Wosen shows that the NIH has scaled back its awards of new grants by at least $2.3 billion since the beginning of the year — coming on top of threats to freeze billions of dollars of NIH funding to specific universities as well as abrupt terminations to hundreds research projects targeted by Trump’s political agenda. Read the analysis and check out Emory’s stunning charts and graphs here. The human toll of these cuts — the thousands of personal tragedies playing out across the country, far beyond the NIH’s Maryland campus — is incalculable, but these five stories illustrate the trauma that people are weathering as labs go dark and careers evaporate overnight. Angus Chen, Jonathan Wosen and Usha Lee McFarling did an incredible job capturing the heartbreak of this moment. And be sure to take a look at the timeline, compiled by Usha and given a snazzy design by Julia Bujalski. What a mighty project!