A multiyear federal grant supporting the research and development of an implantable pediatric artificial heart at Ithaca, N.Y.-based Cornell University was canceled when the Trump administration pulled billions in funding for elite colleges and universities, according to an Oct. 9 report from WYPR.
The project’s leader, biomedical engineer James Antaki, PhD, received a stop-work order from a grant officer at the Department of Defense, which said the cancellation was “at the direction of the administration,” the report said.
Since the cancellation, Dr. Antaki’s lab has been shut down, graduate students have left and a “key” project technician was laid off.
Read the full WYPR report here.
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