A breast cancer researcher at Harvard loses 1/3 of her staff amid NIH funding cuts

By Martha Bebinger

Published November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM EST

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Amid NIH funding delays, clawbacks and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.