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History of Science Funding in the U.S.

A brief history In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act into law, creating what are now known as land-grant universities. These schools were established to emphasize the teaching of agriculture, science, military science, and engineering, while still including classical studies and other sciences. In 1887, the Hatch Act furthered this goal by setting […]

Science Discovery Stories

Defibrilators: How a 14-Year-Old Boy’s Life Sparked a Revolution in Emergency Medicine Imagine being on the operating table, your heart suddenly stopping mid-surgery. In 1947, that terrifying scenario became a historic turning point—because that’s when a Cleveland heart surgeon named Dr. Claude Beck did something unprecedented: he brought a clinically dead boy back to life […]

Human Diseases That We Need to Conquer

Below is a non-comprehensive list of diseases we still need to cure. Acquired Diseases: Bacterial Diseases, Fungal Diseases, Protist Diseases, Viral Diseases Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Aspergillosis Brucellosis Candidiasis (Yeast Infection) Cholera Chorioamnionitis Diphtheria Gastroenteritis Giardiasis Hepatitis Hepatitis B (HBV) Hepatitis C (HCV) Malaria Pneumocystis Pneumonia Poliomyelitis Smallpox Tuberculosis Cancers and Benign Tumors Adult T-Cell Leukemia […]

NIH-Funded Discoveries that Impact Human Health

A general Note NIH-funded research contributed to 354 of 356 drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in2010–19. Cleary, E. G. et al. JAMA Health Forum 4, e230511 (2023). From a recent Nature article on the NIH How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts Abrupt funding cuts to the […]

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