Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Dr. Geoanna Bautista, neonatologist at UC Davis Children’s Hospital, shares how NIH-funded research is saving babies' lives. Her work focuses on improving gut health in premature and high-risk infants—babies born with intestinal defects like gastroschisis or at risk for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Learn why cuts to federal research funding could threaten both future innovations and the careers of the next generation of physician-scientists.

Video description: Dr. Bautista standing in front of a blue background. Babies in the NICU, including one with a breathing mask.

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