Biomedical Researchers Ponder Future After Trump Election

What could the world of medical research look like under a Trump administration?

It’s hardly an idle question.

The federal government spends more than $30 billion a year to fund the National Institutes of Health. That’s the single largest chunk of federal research funding spent outside the Pentagon’s sphere of influence.

Policy insiders confronted that question — albeit with an acute shortage of actual data — Monday at a meeting of health advocates in New York City.

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