Trump is threatening Harvard with funding cuts in the billions. But what does he want the university to do?
Dan Barouch, head of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which is affiliated with Harvard, said $9 billion is “a huge number” that “makes me worry about the work that countless people do in countless areas.”
Barouch’s center helped develop the COVID-19 vaccine marketed by Johnson & Johnson. The center has received millions of dollars in federal funding over the past decade to work on vaccines to prevent multiple diseases, including HIV.
Barouch said he had no idea whether funding for his center’s work could be imperiled by the Trump administration’s review, and had no immediate plans to inquire about it.
“I don’t think that anybody knows,” he said. “I wouldn’t even know who to ask.”
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