The Trump administration has cancelled many existing science grants and it’s proposing large budget cuts to science funding foundations like the National Institutes of Health.

That’s why hundreds of people at UC San Diego on Friday attended what they called a “Stand Up for Science” protest.

Protesters talked about the importance of science funding to the San Diego economy and to the progress of medicine. In fact, they said, federal cuts have already had a big impact on the university.

“At UC San Diego as of May 30th, there have been more than 150 federal grants terminated, resulting in a loss of $30 million,” said Lisa Eyler, a professor of psychiatry at UCSD.

One postdoctoral student at the rally said his grant was cancelled, and the justification was his research was related to diver

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