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A Look at How NIH Layoffs Hit Just One Promising Study

April 6, 2025

A Look at How NIH Layoffs Hit Just One Promising Study

What: On the same day NIH researchers published promising findings on shrinking gastrointestinal cancer tumors with immunotherapy, they were hit with devastating layoffs that delayed treatment for patients.

Key Line: “Everything I try to do, I try to do at warp speed. These are people with desperate illnesses and nowhere to go… Right now, assuming things don’t get any worse, it would be a month [delay]. These are not patients that have very many months left.”

Source: The Washington Post

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