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How your research can survive a US federal grant termination

Researchers in the United States are filing appeals, seeking court remedies, turning to philanthropy and starting GoFundMe campaigns.
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  1. Virginia Gewin

    1. Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon.

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Tala Navab-Daneshmand wearing an OSU-branded lab coat and blue gloves handing wastewater samples in a laboratory

Tala Navab-Daneshmand working on a project to analyse wastewater samples for antibiotic resistance, the grant for which has been terminated by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Credit: Thuy T. Tran

Seven weeks after being awarded a US$12.9-million grant to assess dementia risks in vulnerable populations, Briana Mezuk received an e-mail informing her that it was being terminated.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02007-w

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