Trump cuts funding for crucial diabetes prevention research

The Trump administration has canceled funding for a major 30-year study on diabetes prevention, impacting research on prediabetes and diabetes. This decision follows the administration's halt of federal grants to Columbia University. Columbia has been managing the latest phase of the Diabetes Prevention Program, which focuses on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The program's funding, over $80 million for five years, supports numerous research sites across the U.S. Researchers have not received official confirmation on the reasons for the funding cut, but it appears linked to the administration's actions against Columbia University regarding campus antisemitism.