“My Research Into This Devastating Disease Is Now Threatened”

The federal government has terminated numerous federally funded grants and contracts to Harvard and is scaling back investments in scientific and medical research across the country. In this series, Harvard Medical School scientists discuss how these actions are affecting their research and their labs.

The laboratory of Sandeep Robert Datta, MD ’04 PhD ’04, studies Alzheimer’s disease, a devastating disorder that affects millions of Americans and has very limited treatment options. The federal government terminated his research grant.

He worries not only for the lost progress, but for the lost training of scientists to study Alzheimer’s disease in the future. “We need long-term consistent funding, not just to work on Alzheimer’s disease today, but to train the Alzheimer’s researchers of the future,” says Datta, a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Learn more about Datta's work in the video below.