Max Kozlov 🇺🇦
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science reporter covering biology @Nature | proudly Ukrainian 🇺🇦 SIGNAL: mkozlov.01
@AmitaGuptaMD has spent more than a decade on a $70m trial to study a new TB drug, enrolling 6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing. That's because an NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. For @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…
The reprieve Congress gave to PEPFAR, the progam to combat HIV in developing nations, might be short lived. State Department officials have been mapping out a plan to shut it down in the coming years, reports @snolen. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/hea…
NEW: The NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take roles on panels that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and to expect placements by political appointees. nature.com/articles/d4158…
"I never expected to go on Medicaid. I grew up in a comfortable household, had worked since high school, and was a generally healthy 24y/o public policy graduate student. I also never expected the stubborn lump above my collarbone would be Hodgkin’s lymphoma." My brave friend…
Someone else that banned Nature: Nazi Germany Articles in Nature contain "outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state. The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries." nature.com/articles/d4158…
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”. Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions…