Key takeaways

Harvard lost $2.6 billion in federal research funding

Key projects on MS, cancer, and addiction have been frozen

Cuts stem from dispute over antisemitism and campus reforms

Scientists fear lasting damage to U.S. research leadership

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University professor Alberto Ascherio’s research is literally frozen.

Collected from millions of U.S. soldiers over two decades using millions of dollars from taxpayers, the epidemiology and nutrition scientist has blood samples stored in liquid nitrogen freezers within the university’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health .

The samples are key to his award-winning research, which seeks a cure to multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases. But for months, Ascherio has been unable to work with the

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