A Department of Defense official pleaded with her superiors to stop the cancellation of a Harvard grant that studies biological threats, according to newly filed court documents in the university’s case against the Trump administration.

After DoD leadership told Harvard that grants will be terminated, the director of contracting at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, appeared “taken unaware by the decision,” according to court documents filed June 2.

The director asked her superiors to reconsider cutting the grant to a program called AMPHORA, which was “working to increase awareness of emerging biological threats,” according to the memorandum filed by Harvard .

The official is unnamed in the filing.

“Harvard is currently the top performing team on the AMPHORA pro

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