Here’s How Science Funding Could Change Under Trump

President Trump once again oversees billions of dollars of funding for research into pandemics, HIV, cancer, and other fundamental areas of health and science. And once again, his administration seems determined to shake up how that money is doled out. Federal science agencies, from the Department of Energy to the National Science Foundation, fund research across the country. So far, the agency that the Trump administration has most clearly signaled as a target for changes is the National Institutes of Health, which funnels some $40 billion to 300,000 scientists at 2,500 universities and other research institutions. Trump has nominated the former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH’s parent agency, and Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine and health policy at Stanford University, to run the NIH.