<a href="https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2025/03/12/nih-cuts-off-more-research-funding-including-for-vaccine-hesitancy-mrna-may-be-next" target="_blank">The Trump administration continues to make significant funding cuts to medical research</a>.On Midday Edition Monday, we sit down with a panel of scientists to dive into the impacts these funding cuts are having on research efforts in San Diego County, from local academic institutions to the biotech and pharmaceutical industry.Guests:<ul><li><a href="https://profiles.ucsd.edu/sarah.lamere" target="_blank">Sarah LaMere</a>, assistant professor, UC San Diego’s School of Medicine</li><li>Kiyomi Komori, senior director of translational medicine, <a href="https://www.uniquity.com/" target="_blank">Uniquity Bio</a></li><li><a href="https://www.xuchenlab-ucsd.org/team-1/leigh-ana-rossitto" target="_blank">Leigh-Ana Rossitto</a>, biomedical graduate student researcher, UC San Diego</li></ul>

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