Julia Marcus, a Harvard infectious disease epidemiologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, is one of them. She had three federal grants related to PrEP, a revolutionary medication that can reduce someone’s risk of contracting HIV, canceled in March.

Harvard researchers who rely on federal grants to study cancer, infectious diseases and a range of other topics began receiving termination notices en masse on Thursday from a number of federal agencies.

Harvard University is dedicating $250 million of its own funds to support researchers after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration froze nearly $3 billion in federal grants and contracts in recent weeks,

In a letter sent by Trump’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism to the university on Tuesday, the administration informed Harvard that another $450 million in grants were on the chopping block because the school has allegedly become a “breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination.”

As the Trump administration halts about $2.7 billion in Harvard University funding, the school’s president is absorbing some of the financial impacts by taking a 25 % pay cut, according to a university spokesperson.

Alan Garber will take a 25 percent cut to his salary for the fiscal year 2026. The post Harvard president taking voluntary pay cut amid Trump funding freezes appeared first on Boston.com.

A federal judge has ordered the transfer of a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher facing deportation from Louisiana, where she was detained by immigration authorities, to Massachusetts,

Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody since February, when she flew into Boston Logan International Airport with unclaimed frog embryo samples and slides.