Harvard AIDS Research, Affiliated Hospitals Hit by Trump Feud

The Trump administration’s funding battle with Harvard University is starting to impact projects at affiliated hospitals and has crippled the school’s Center for AIDS Research, one of the largest backers in the US for emerging studies on the condition.

Harvard funnels a portion of its federal grants to research partners, including the Mass General Brigham hospital system, and that money has now largely stopped flowing after the government froze more than $2.6 billion in support. Mass General researchers whose work is affected should “stop all activity and spending” unless they have found alternative funding, Paul Anderson, the hospital group’s chief academic officer, said in a message to staff late last week.