US funding cuts ‘will widen gap between research and disease’

Misalignment between global research and disease will accelerate “without sustained US public funding”, study warns

A new study warns that the loss of US public funding will worsen the gap between global health research and the actual burden of diseases, urging major research nations to collaborate more to fix the issue.  

A paper published in Nature Medicine today, led by University of Mannheim researchers, argues that global research is not keeping pace with the increasing impact of diseases, with the divergence set to increase over the next two decades.

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