Squeezing the Pipette: How Federal Funding Cuts Could Impact Your Lab
Laboratory professionals across the United States are the unsung heroes behind research break throughs, disease detection and surveillance (think avian influenza or measles), food safety, and accurate patient diagnoses. But now, the elimination of federal funding and personnel not only at agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), but also at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), significantly impairs these labs’ abilities to continue to function. Cuts at the federal level will have repercussions across labs everywhere in the United States and beyond.
This blog post will explore the direct and indirect repercussions of these cuts on laboratories nationwide. It’s important for laboratory personnel, and the broader organizations in which they sit, to be aware of the changes these cuts will induce so they can plan their response and optimize their systems to do more with less.
