Breast Cancer

Harvard Medical School researcher Joan Brugge says her NCI-funded breast cancer lab lost 7 of 18 staff after the NIH froze Harvard grants in April over campus antisemitism concerns, then restored funding in September. The administration barred Harvard researchers from applying for new multiyear NIH grants; a federal judge lifted that ban, but Brugge missed the renewal deadline, meaning her current $7 million, seven-year grant will end and work to target early 'seed' cells in breast tissue has slowed.