The National Institute of Health officials urged scientists to eliminate all mentions of MRNA vaccine technology from the subsidies applications, the two researchers signed a signal that they could give up the promising medical research.
MRNA technology is being studied for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, including the flu and AIDS in NIH. Also cancer. Covid-19 vaccine was deployed in the development of vaccines. 3 million life saves Only in the United States -achievement President Donald Trump boasted In his first term.
A scientist at the Biosics Research Center in Philadelphia wrote a letter to a colleague that NIH’s project manager said, “Our subsidies have a MRNA vaccine component.”
The scientist added, “It is still unclear whether the MRNA vaccine subsidy will be canceled.”
NIH officials also explained that they did not conduct MRNA vaccine studies to vaccine scientists supported by senior NIH in New York, but they explained their efficacy in the previous subsidy application, and all reference to all mRNA vaccines would be rubbed in the future.
Scientists have conveyed their experiences of anonymous conditions for the Trump administration’s fear of professional retaliation.
A senior official at the National Cancer Institute is a NIH agent acting director Matthew Memoli that subsidies, contracts, or cooperation related to MRNA vaccines have been reported in the office of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I confirmed that I sent an indicator e -mail.
Memoli sent a similar message than an institution that canceled other studies such as vaccine hesitation.
Memoli’s email on this topic says NIH is not interested in why people avoid vaccines or seek ways to “improve the interest and dedication of vaccines.”
An official of the National Cancer Research Institute, who mentioned anonymity of the fear of retaliation, said, “It is reasonable to assume that MRNA vaccine is next.”
The officials also came out similar notes about the work supported by NIH in South Africa, and the White House aimed to false the state’s persecution of white people. More recent things have been out of all global research cooperation, officials said.
The White House, HHS and NIH spokesman did not respond to requests.
NIH, with the latest annual budget of $ 47 billion, is one of the most important sources in the world for basic biological research. That mission and program It was created by the Trump administrative order, which ordered the federal agency to prepare a wide range of dismissal.
NIH supports funds for at least 130 studies related to the MRNA technology of the Covid vaccine produced by PFIZER-BIONTech and Moderna, which are administered to billions of people around the world.
A former government official, who is familiar with internal discussions, said the Trump administration tries to reduce subsidies for research on MRNA vaccines, but the timing is unclear. The man talked about anonymous conditions to protect his relationship with the administration.
Political conservatives in the United States have published a conspiracy theory that is not intended by scientific evidence. This weakened the public’s support for the covid vaccination and MRNA research.
A New York scientist said in an interview that “NIH will not be able to fund the MRNA vaccine.” “Maga people are sure that these vaccines are killing and harassing tens of thousands of people. Not true, but I believe.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of other vaccine -related research lies in Limbo. Kawsar Talaat, a vaccine researcher at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health School, is waiting for the money needed to recruit the target for the study of the vaccine.
“NIH has approved our funds. And now we are waiting. And we do not know whether it will go forward or kill.”
Philadelphia’s scientists believe that Kennedy, a long anti -Basin carcin activist, is responsible for NIH’s transition to MRNA research.
Scientists said, “Kennedy’s vaccine war has begun.
New York scientists said that it is “funny” to remove the MRNA language from the subsidy application. But scientists said, “If my subsidies are rejected for any reason, the laboratory people will lose their jobs.”
“I have worked with some of them for 20 years,” scientists added. “They have children and families. Especially among vaccine scientists, academics have true fear.”
The scientist said, “My subsidies don’t include funding for funding for the MRNA vaccine experiment,” he said. “My main concern was to avoid the words search flags that could be delayed at least.”
The term professor of the university is generally paid from the institution, while employees who work in the laboratory and office are often paid through the NIH subsidies. that 2023 Nobel Prize In physiology or medicine, it was provided to the two scientists for the development of MRNA vaccines through relying on NIH scientists working in pharmaceutical companies and infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci.
According to the Bill Cassidy SenateKennedy promised the “Public Health Benefits of Vaccination” and “the current vaccine approval and safety monitoring system and not establishing a parallel system in the process of confirmation of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee’s Senate.
Cassidy, a doctor, made a reservation for checking Kennedy in the HHS post and challenged the antivacin view at the confirmation hearing. He eventually voted for him, he said Kennedy agreed We work closely with Catidy and his committee.
However, Kennedy has led to the first US measles of the United States for more than 10 years, facing the first few weeks of dealing with the development of a large measles among those who have not been vaccinated in Texas for more than 10 years. Patients who have been positive for measles died in New Mexico, but the cause was not confirmed. Kennedy is a certain way to prevent infection instead of urging vaccinations for diseases. He criticized the malnutrition of the outbreakPromote unproven treatment for measles and insisted in false In an interview with a Fox News The vaccine is not effective and dangerous.
Catidy did not respond to the request for abandonment of NIH’s mRNA vaccine research.
As part of the Trump administration to investigate spending on MRNA vaccines, the health officials are considering $ 550 million in the Bird’s flu firm awarded by the BIDEN administration. Bloomberg News Reported. At least seven states aim to prohibit or restrict the MRNA vaccine for legislation introduced by GOP lawmakers. In some cases, measures will hit a willingness to provide injections for criminal punishment, fines and the possibility of cancellation of license.
Stephanie Armour and Céline Gounder have contributed to this article.
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