STAT December 8, 2025
Cuts to diversity transition grants slow research and lengthen job searches
The MOSAIC program is the type of early-career research grant that checks many of the boxes of the Trump administration.
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya listed “training future biomedical scientists” as one of his top priorities, and has spoken often about the need to support researchers at the start of their careers, when they tend to do their most original work. MOSAIC is meant to do just that, funding scholars during the precarious transition from postdoctoral researchers under the wings of more established scientists to independent lab heads.
Dispersing federal research funding, largely concentrated at private universities on the coasts, to the rest of the...
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