Kourtney Christopher is a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Kourtney Christopher
Graduate student
University of California, Los Angeles
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A leaked draft of a Trump administration proposal includes an approximately 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health’s budget and a major reorganization of its 27 institutes and centers.

Proposed NIH budget cut threatens ‘massive destruction of American science’
A leaked draft of a Trump administration proposal includes an approximately 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health’s budget and a major reorganization of its 27 institutes and centers.