Dr. Zeke Emanuel
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Who loses when Trump cuts funding to universities?
Since 2000, which was the end of the Human Genome Project, there have been five major advances in biology, sort of platform advances. There's been CRISPR technology to change genes. There's been CAR T therapy for cancers. There's been gene therapy. There's mRNA vaccines. And now there's these GLP-1 anti-obesity, anti-diabetes drugs. All of them, all five of them,
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Who loses when Trump cuts funding to universities?
were really born in labs in universities and medical schools, one in part with Denmark. American universities, all of that kind of novel breakthroughs that really help people.
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Who loses when Trump cuts funding to universities?
So look, we have an endowment. And first of all, it's not an endowment. It's multiple little endowments, an endowment for this professorship or that research. Most of that money is focused on very specific areas that the donor wanted. That's the first thing.
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The second thing is a large part of those endowments are used to support students whose families cannot afford to go to the university and don't are given full scholarships or partial scholarships. For example, every student at Penn whose family doesn't make $75,000 or more, right, is given a full scholarship that's worth $92,000, and that part of the endowment goes to support that.
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Who loses when Trump cuts funding to universities?
Part of the endowment goes to support other research initiatives, whether... We're looking at new historical research, new scientific research, new research in economics. That's a large part of what the endowments do. And we can only use about 3% to 4% of the value that's accrued every year. So you might say, oh, it's $50 billion. But 3% of $50 billion is only $1.5 billion.
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Who loses when Trump cuts funding to universities?
And that's to support a very, very large organization at Harvard.
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First of all, you're taking funding from cancer research because you claim that they're not combating anti-Semitism enough. If you're Jewish, that's not going to be a good look, and that's not going to be something that is going to be favorable. The second thing I would say is they're not related.
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Who loses when Trump cuts funding to universities?
And they're not, you're putting pressure on the university doesn't mean that they're not addressing antisemitism. The important thing is to hold them accountable for antisemitism by holding them accountable for antisemitism, what they're doing to combat that on campus. I agree. Not all of our universities did a great job on antisemitism.
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Who loses when Trump cuts funding to universities?
I think that's a fig leaf for what they're really trying to do, which is bring down universities.