Trump funding cuts force shutdown of Alzheimer's study of 600 aging adults
Researchers in Pittsburgh lose federal grant, unable to share cognitive test results with participants despite having the data.
What to know
- A Trump administration-canceled Alzheimer's research grant forces shutdown of a study on 600 aging people in Pittsburgh, preventing researchers from sharing cognitive test results with participants despite having all the data.
- The funding cut is one of 5,700+ medical research grants disrupted by the Trump administration over two years, impacting over 74,000 trial participants nationally and targeting research on underserved, majority-Black communities.
- Researchers at University of Pittsburgh are plaintiffs in a lawsuit arguing the cuts constitute political censorship of research, with ACLU counsel warning the targeting of health disparities research has life-or-death consequences.
Funding cuts target health research on vulnerable populations and constitute dangerous research censorship with public health consequences.
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“Moving public $ from medical to AI research reveals #priorities”
aaronsojourner.org · Bluesky ↗
“The plaintiff's experiences and stories here really evidence that censoring research can have life or death consequences.”
Olga Akselrod, Senior counsel, ACLU racial justice program · The Guardian ↗
Trump administration Funder/policy actorTamara Dubowitz and Andrea Rosso Lead researchers, University of PittsburghOlga Akselrod Senior counsel, ACLU racial justice programNational Institutes of Health (NIH) Federal funder/defendant
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ACLU argues funding cuts constitute research censorship with life-or-death consequences
Researchers at University of Pittsburgh are named plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against the NIH arguing the administration is attempting to censor research. ACLU counsel warns the targeting of underserved populations disproportionately harms those experiencing health disparities.
“It is dangerous for public health when research is censored based on political litmus tests, and particularly when it targets areas of research designed to address the needs of underserved populations that disproportionately experience negative health outcomes.”
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Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts: Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Project2025 #science #Blues
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This should make you furious. https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s ep/18/pittsburgh-trump-funding-cuts-nih-alzheimers # Alzheimers # research # TrumpAdministration
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DONALD J TRUMP HATES AMERICA Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts
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Data shows Trump administration disrupted 5,700+ medical research grants in two years
According to Grant Witness, the Trump administration has canceled, frozen, and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years. More than 4,500 have since been restored. Clinical trial cancellations alone have impacted more than 74,000 participants nationally, with studies ranging from childhood hearing loss to pain during cesarean delivery.
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Guardian reports study shutdown prevents sharing of cognitive test results with 600 participants
Reporting reveals that despite researchers having all collected data, funding cuts prevent them from having time and money to assess the data and share cognitive test results with study participants, potentially delaying Alzheimer's or dementia diagnoses.
“Scientific funding cuts imposed by the Trump administration may force researchers to close a study on Alzheimer's disease risk among 600 ageing people without sharing the results of cognitive tests with participants – even though researchers have all the data to do so.”
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Trump administration cancels Alzheimer's research grant for Pittsburgh study — The federal research grant studying Alzheimer's disease risk in two low-income, majority Black neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is canceled. Researchers are given 90 days to shut down the study—more than five months earlier than the original planned end date.
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2 outlets ‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science
first by Mastodon, 5d ago · also Guardian
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2 outlets Trump funding cuts may force Alzheimer’s disease study to shut down, affecting 600 aging adults
first by Guardian US, 6d ago · also Guardian
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What people are saying 21 voices from 2 sites · best of 42 · verbatim
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The United States was founded by a handful of slave-owning syphilitic farmers who believed diseases were caused by ghosts. They created a system of government based on ancient Rome, which famously had no issues. This is what happens when you let rich people rule by default. Everything sucks.
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Cutting this funding is abhorrent; these communities deserve better. This study might have shown how chronic neighborhood stress drives the toxic hormone surges. These stresses then hyper-activate the #rs5522 receptor pathway, accelerating neuroinflammation and tissue collapse.
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Right? It fits the delusions of the cuckoo-nutbar cult of the New Apostolic Reform, their Pentecostal origins, and the "nondenominational" charismatic offshoots (megachurches are usually Pentecostal churches with laser light shows & smoke machines). "Flat Earth", anti-vax, chemtrail, end of days 💩!
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TBF they need that money to study chemtrails
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Dad (Fred): Alzheimer's. Died in June, 1999. Paternal cousin, John Walter (son of aunt Elizabeth Trump Walter): dementia. Died jan. 2018. Sister Maryanne: dementia during her final year. Died of cancer in Nov, 2023.
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How's that Epstein Ballroom, comin' along?
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty" -Hannah Arendt "The Origins of Totalitarianism" RESIST.
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A study that might even have helped him or someone in his family. Or as Ben Franklin wrote:"He that spits against the wind, spits in his own face".
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Trump cuts funding for major Alzheimer's study & forgets why.
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How about we cancel this stupid war and fund these studies.
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During COVID he wanted everyone to stop counting cases. In this way, his minions could alter the stats. So nothing has changed, ignore Alzheimer’s and you can deny it exists. Oil is cheap right.
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Culling of the herd. Fratboy/Techbro Eugenics marches on...
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Trump’s a monster! Also cut cancer research tho his sons started a cancer charity. OH WAIT THEY STOLE THE $$ from the fund‼️ The poor children at St. Jude w/ brain tumors don’t have time to wait 2 more years for a president that wants to advance medical science‼️ These people are absolute animals.
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Vote blue and get over any purity tests. We’ve got to give these evil Endtimers the boot!
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Why is he even allowed to do these things
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All because he doesn't want people to realize he has Dementia. This timeline sucks.
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It's coming Donnie and no matter what you try to do, it will catch you. 🤪
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Funding cuts have the potential to unnecessarily delay diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia syndromes in the group – diseases whose treatments rely on early diagnosis. Nearly 7 million people in the US live with Alzheimer’s. Most are white, but Black Americans have nearly double the risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia, according to the…
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Source: https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s ep/18/pittsburgh-trump-funding-cuts-nih-alzheimers
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Republican health care = you die https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s ep/18/pittsburgh-trump-funding-cuts-nih-alzheimers
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Moving public $ from medical to AI research reveals #priorities