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medical research

Tennessee’s medical research is in limbo while the Trump administration considers illegal budget cuts

Catherine Sweeney

February 11, 2025

The Trump administration announced it would make major cuts to National Institutes of Health grants. Tennessee gets around $700 million a year in NIH funding. The money goes to universities, hospitals and biomedical companies.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: cancer, health access, health disparities, health policy, medical research, Trump Administration

Nashville residents underrepresented in medical research are offering up DNA samples despite their privacy concerns

Blake Farmer

June 2, 2022

Maretza Castro
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The “All of Us” research program is focused on recruiting people of color, primarily, to build a diverse, million-patient databank, which Vanderbilt Medical Center will help manage.

Filed Under: Health Care, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: medical research, Nashville Noticias, NIH, Plaza Mariachi

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