Are scientists and researchers leaving the U.S.? @cfr
Are scientists and researchers leaving the U.S.?  @cfr
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Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) asks Thomas J. Bollyky, director of CFR’s Global Health program, if funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are causing researchers to leave the United States for more stable funding environments. “We are already seeing a flow of scientists out of the U.S. That’s a product of the difficulty of the U.S. funding environment, as well as the rise or emergence of China’s biopharmaceutical industry,” Bollyky states.

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