KFF Health, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, recently published an expose asserting that two senior scientists have reported that National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in their grant applications.
According to this media entity, this directive has raised concerns that the Trump administration may be planning to abandon mRNA vaccine research, and furthermore, it decries that a supposedly promising field of medical science will be axed.
As an example, the KFF Health report indicated that an NIH project officer informed a scientist from a biomedical research center in Philadelphia that their pending grant had been “flagged” for having an mRNA vaccine component.
A scientist at a biomedical research center in Philadelphia wrote to a colleague, in an email reviewed by KFF Health News, that a project officer at NIH had “flagged our pending grant as having an mRNA vaccine component.”...
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