Top biomedical scientist Hu ‘Tony’ Ye leaves US for China after $8.3M NIH grant cuts — all you need to know | Mint

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Top biomedical scientist Hu ‘Tony’ Ye leaves US for China after $8.3M NIH grant cuts — all you need to know | Mint - Lemmy.World

> It was reported that Hu had focused on the fast detection of viruses, bringing out various papers in journals and serving as the associate editor of the ACS Nano journal. The South China Morning Post reported that only months before Hu left the US, he had publicly talked about the freezes and cuts to NIH funding. He said a $3.7 million NIH grant impacted by the cuts had been allotted for the early detection of tuberculosis and HIV in children. > Hu Ye has reportedly been appointed founding dean at the new school of biomedical engineering at Tsinghua University.

The US draining brain in all directions.
Easy come, easy go. The US never offered anything more than just money to those researchers, so as soon as money disappeared, nothing holds scientists in the States.

Highly skilled immigrants from countries with authoritarian regimes are immigrants (among other reasons, mostly) because of those regimes. Makes sense that they’ll go back to their own authoritarian regime when the country they’ve immigrated to becomes authoritarian as well.

Fascism in your own (ie born and raised) country is bad, fascism where you’re an immigrant is much worse.

That makes sense ans in addition it seems like the research conditions themselves are starting to shift in favour of the other regime.

How many more stories like this aren’t we hearing, I wonder?

Right at the very cusp of when we might be able to do a big push for to get lots and lots of breakthroughs in biotech, the conservatives/Republicans come along and ruin it, just like they ruin everything.

Same goes for things like solar and wind…