Higher education and scientific research in the United States are in crisis. The budget cuts imposed by the Trump administration achieved higher education and medical research in the United States. The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), one of the most influential biomedical research centers in the world, has announced the abolition of more than 2,000 jobs, a direct consequence of the reduction of federal financing.
Other prestigious universities, such as Harvard, Stanford and Columbia, freeze their hiring against this budgetary uncertainty.
A national crisis that attacks research and innovation
The Trump administration has launched a drastic reduction in the subsidies of universities, especially when heading to the financing of National Health Institutes (NIH), a kind of American insertm. Johns Hopkins will lose $ 800 million in federal funds, which directly affects vital public health programs, especially in HIV, tuberculosis …