recent Supreme Court ruling<\/a> that upheld the government\u2019s suspension of $783 million in NIH grants \u2014 to universities and research centers throughout the country \u2014 in part because the issue, the high court said, was not properly within the jurisdiction of a lower federal court.<\/p>\nAltabet said the administration was \u201cfully embracing the principles in the Supreme Court\u2019s recent opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hundreds of NIH grants on hold at UCLA look into Parkinson\u2019s disease treatment, cancer recovery, cell regeneration in nerves and other areas that campus leaders argue are pivotal for improving the health of Americans.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration has proposed a roughly $1.2-billion fine and demanded campus changes over admission of international students and protest rules. Federal officials have also called for UCLA to release detailed admission data, ban gender-affirming healthcare for minors and give the government deep access to UCLA internal campus data, among other demands, in exchange for restoring $584 million in funding to the university.<\/p>\n
In addition to allegations that the university has not seriously dealt with complaints of antisemitism on campus, the government also said it slashed UCLA funding in response to its findings that the campus illegally considers race in admissions and \u201cdiscriminates against and endangers women\u201d by recognizing the identities of transgender people.<\/p>\n
UCLA has said it has made changes to improve campus climate for Jewish communities and does not use race in admissions. Its chancellor, Julio Frenk, has said that defunding medical research \u201cdoes nothing\u201d to address discrimination allegations. The university displays websites and policies that recognize different gender identities and maintains services for LGBTQ+ communities.<\/p>\n
UC leaders said they will not pay the $1.2-billion fine and are negotiating with the Trump administration over its other demands. They have told The Times that many settlement proposals cross the university\u2019s red lines.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecent federal cuts to research funding threaten lifesaving biomedical research, hobble U.S. economic competitiveness and jeopardize the health of Americans who depend on cutting-edge medical science and innovation,\u201d a UC spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. \u201cWhile the University of California is not a party to this suit, the UC system is engaged in numerous legal and advocacy efforts to restore funding to vital research programs across the humanities, social sciences and STEM fields.\u201d<\/p>\n
A ruling Lin issued in the case last month resulted in $81 million in NSF grants restored to UCLA. If the UCLA NIH grants are reinstated, it would leave about $3 million from the July suspensions \u2014 all Department of Energy grants \u2014 still frozen at UCLA.<\/p>\n
Lin also said she leaned toward adding Transportation and Defense department grants to the case, which run in the millions of dollars but are small compared with UC\u2019s NIH grants.<\/p>\n
The hearing was closely watched by researchers at the Westwood campus, who have cut back on lab hours, reduced operations and considered layoffs as the crisis at UCLA moves toward the two-month mark.<\/p>\n
In interviews, they said they were hopeful grants would be reinstated but remain concerned over the instability of their work under the recent federal actions.<\/p>\n
Lydia Daboussi, a UCLA assistant professor of neurobiology whose $1-million grant researching nerve injury is suspended, observed the hearing online.<\/p>\n
Aftewards, Daboussi said she was \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d about her grant being reinstated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would really like this to be the relief that my lab needs to get our research back online,\u201d said Daboussi, who is employed at the David Geffen School of Medicine. \u201cIf the preliminary injunction is granted, that is a wonderful step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant funding, she said, \u201cwas how we bought the antibodies we needed for experiments, how we purchased our reagents and our consumable supplies.\u201d The lab consists of nine other people, including two PhD students and one senior scientist.<\/p>\n
So far, none of Daboussi\u2019s lab members have departed. But, she said, if \u201cthis goes on for too much longer, at some point, people\u2019s hours will have to be reduced.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI do find myself having to pay more attention to volatilities outside of our lab space,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve now become acquainted with our legal system in ways that I didn\u2019t know would be necessary for my job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elle Rathbun, a sixth-year neuroscience PhD candidate at UCLA, lost a roughly $160,000 NIH grant that funded her study of stroke recovery treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there is a chance that these suspensions are lifted, that is phenomenal news,\u201d said Rathbun, who presented at UCLA\u2019s \u201cScience Fair for Suspended Research\u201d<\/a> this month. <\/p>\n\u201cLifting these suspensions would then allow us to continue these really critical projects that have already been determined to be important for American health and the future of American health,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Rathbun\u2019s research is focused on a potential treatment that would be injected into the brain to help rebuild it after a stroke. Since the suspension of her grant, Rathbun, who works out of a lab at UCLA\u2019s neurology department, has been seeking other funding sources.<\/p>\n
\u201cApplying to grants takes a lot of time,\u201d she said. \u201cSo that really slowed down my progress in my project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge Thursday said she was \u201cinclined to extend\u201d an earlier ruling and order the Trump administration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[100720,23,100718,36412,159,10095,97,55556,100721,3,1728,12317,644,100722,20737,100719,21,19,22,20,6671,25,24],"class_list":["post-167242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-admission","tag-america","tag-california-leader","tag-case","tag-funding","tag-grant","tag-health","tag-lin","tag-lydia-daboussi","tag-news","tag-research","tag-suspension","tag-trump-administration","tag-uc-campus","tag-ucla","tag-ucla-grant","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-university","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}