Trump administration’s ‘catastrophic’ cuts to HIV/AIDS funding eliminates $2M Meharry grant

Meharry Medical College has lost a $2 million grant for HIV research following Trump administration cuts to research programs deemed to be DEI-linked. (Photo: Meharry Medical College via Facebook)

NASHVILLE — The Trump administration has eliminated $2 million in HIV research facility funding for Meharry Medical College after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the National Institutes of Health to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in DEI-linked funding for biomedical research.

Meharry, one of the nation’s oldest and largest historically Black medical schools, intended to use the funding for a “cutting-edge and modern HIV research space.”

For decades, Meharry scientists have investigated why minority populations are disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS, working in tandem with Va