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The damage done

Nature Medicine volume 31, pages 3211–3215 (2025)Cite this article

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When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

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Fig. 1: Mapping the damage.
Fig. 2: Investigators in the firing line.
Fig. 3: Shuttered science.

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  • 06 October 2025

    In the version of the article initially published, the Fig. 2 caption read “Researchers who have had NIH grants cancelled or frozen include...” and has now been corrected to “Researchers whose work has been affected by NIH grant cancellations or freezes to NIH administration include...”. Additionally Ophira Ginsburg’s title has been amended to “Senior Advisor for clinical research”. These corrections have been made to the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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