An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent.
It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance.
Read American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries
Part 1
Part 1
Scientists lost a reliable partner, with ‘nothing to replace it’
By Megan Molteni and Anil Oza
Part 5
Part 5
What NIH cuts meant to young scientists in the MOSAIC scholar program
By Anil Oza and J. Emory Parker
Part 5
Part 5
What NIH cuts meant to young scientists in the MOSAIC scholar program
By Anil Oza and J. Emory Parker
Part 10
Part 10
Cuts and chaos: Frustrated scientist drops promising skin disease research
By Eric Boodman
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CREDITS
Reporting and writing Megan Molteni, Anil Oza, Eric Boodman, Angus Chen, Theresa Gaffney, Andrew Joseph, Sarah Todd, and Jonathan Wosen
Data analysis and graphics J. Emory Parker
Editing Gideon Gil and Laura Chang
Art and photo direction Alissa Ambrose and Crystal Milner
Copy editing Amanda Erickson and Sarah Mupo
Design and development Julia Bujalski, Jennifer Weygand, and Ben Lokshin