Scientific Excellence Leaving U.S.

Numerous articles have documented the abrupt changes to research funding by this administration.

WJ Broad. NY Times, 7/09/26. Nobel-Winning U.S. Chemist Will Move to China to Lead A.I. Institute
M Kozlov et al. Nature, 1/20/26. US science after a year of Trump
M Krass, A Gawert. Brennan Center, 5/14/26. The Cost of the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Research Funding
K Riddle. NPR, 5/21/26. Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science

I will focus on the first article but the others provide additional insight into this issue.

An excerpt:

Omar Yaghi, an immigrant to the United States who shared last year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has left his faculty post at the University of California, Berkeley, for one in China, where he will lead an institute using artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new materials…

Last year, three of America’s six winners of science Nobels were born outside the country. In this century, overall, the émigré fraction for U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent…

Last year, before flying to Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize, Dr. Yaghi in an interview with The New York Times voiced concern about Mr. Trump’s immigration policies, saying that they endanger the nation’s system of universities, companies and governments that promote scientific excellence…

My take: The arbitrary cuts and policy shifts have undermined an engine for American prosperity, stalled the development of medications for numerous disorders, imperiled thousands of patients enrolled in clinical trials. and resulted inthe loss of enormous scientific/medical talent.

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