{"id":29032,"date":"2025-06-03T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29032"},"modified":"2025-06-04T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:24:17","slug":"as-the-trump-administration-slashes-federal-spending-scientists-consider-leaving-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29032","title":{"rendered":"As the Trump Administration Slashes Federal Spending, Scientists Consider Leaving the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ardem Patapoutian\u2019s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.<\/p>\n

He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino\u2019s at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Scientists told Kate Zernike that a whole system of science that the United States has built since World War II is at risk.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption>

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He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian\u2019s federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to \u201cany city, any university I want,\u201d he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.<\/p>\n

Dr. Patapoutian declined, because he loves his adopted country. Many scientists just setting out on their careers, however, fear there is no other option but to leave.<\/p>\n

Scientific leaders say that\u2019s risking the way American science has been done for years, and the pre-eminence of the United States in their fields.<\/p>\n

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Ardem Patapoutian\u2019s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino\u2019s at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience.Listen to our reporter\u2019s commentaryScientists told Kate Zernike that a whole system of science that the United States has built since World War II is at risk.He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize.But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian\u2019s federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to \u201cany city, any university I want,\u201d he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.Dr. Patapoutian declined, because he loves his adopted country. Many scientists just setting out on their careers, however, fear there is no other option but to leave.Scientific leaders say that\u2019s risking the way American science has been done for years, and the pre-eminence of the United States in their fields.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29034,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29035,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032\/revisions\/29035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}