Max Kozlov
Science Journalist at Nature
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3 weeks ago |
nature.com | Max Kozlov
A surge of mpox infections in the small African nation of Sierra Leone has pummelled the country’s health-care system, raising the possibility that the virus will spread to neighbouring countries and spark a larger outbreak throughout the densely populated region of West Africa. Sierra Leone has confirmed 15 deaths and more than 3,000 mpox infections — more than half of all new infections for Africa — over the past month.
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4 weeks ago |
nature.com | Max Kozlov
Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running a US$70-million trial to study a new tuberculosis drug, enrolling nearly 6,000 participants across 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing. Gupta’s trial has been ensnared by a US National Institutes of Health (NIH)policy announced on 1 May that bans ‘foreign subawards’, which arefunds that a US grant recipient can give to an international collaboratorto help complete a project.
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1 month ago |
nature.com | Max Kozlov
As the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) cuts billions of dollars of research grants and contracts, one entity has emerged as the driving force behind these unprecedented changes — billionaire Elon Musk’s US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Sworn testimonies from top NIH officials reveal that a DOGE representative directed them to terminate hundreds of specific projects.
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1 month ago |
nature.com | Max Kozlov
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to cut off funding for certain projects about climate change, greenhouse gases and fossil fuels. Specifically, the agency is poised to no longer financially support research on why Earth’s climate is changing, on how to enhance climate-change literacy, on assessing climate-change anxiety and more, according to internal NIH documents and e-mails that Nature has obtained. Trump gutted two landmark environmental reports — can researchers save them?
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1 month ago |
nature.com | Jeff Tollefson |Dan Garisto |Max Kozlov
US President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 calls for unprecedented cuts to scientific agencies that, if enacted, would deal a devastating blow to US science, policy specialists say. The budget document released by the White House on Friday for the upcoming fiscal year, which starts on 1 October, is light on details, but it calls for disproportionately large cuts for federal science funding.
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RT @Nature: Sierra Leone has confirmed 15 deaths and more than 3,000 mpox infections https://t.co/2QA6tZiLPB
RT @maxdkozlov: @AmitaGuptaMD has spent more than a decade on a $70m trial to study a new TB drug, enrolling 6,000 participants in 13 count…
DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannah_natanson reports. https://t.co/teZ0vF0lgW https://t.co/Gy4VzatIxn
Who's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest biomedical funder DOGE provided lists of specific grants to cut and is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released https://t.co/D3pyd3yOSA