The Trump administration’s freezing in April of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants from the National Institutes of Health and forced the university to spend millions to keep vital research afloat and to continue to pay graduate workers and scientists.

Carole LaBonne, a professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern, said the situation at the prominent research institution can only be described as “bleak” as the halt in federal funds continues to send shockwaves across the Evanston campus.

“You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists, and these are the researchers who are going to be driving tomorrow’s discoveries and cures,” LaBonne told the Tribune. “It has short-term impacts,

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