Dr. Don Ingber, one of the first scientists at Harvard, was ordered by the government in April to immediately stop work on two federally funded projects. The Trump administration is waging an "all-out assault on American science," according to an open letter to nearly 2,000 doctors, scientists and researchers, threatening the country's health, economic development, national security and scientific supremacy. By slashing agency funding and laying off thousands of federal scientists, research support at universities and institutions is declining, slowing discoveries in cancer and heart disease treatments. Peter Marks, the head of the vaccine regulatory body at the FDA, was forced out over ideological differences. New NIH policies make it easier to terminate grants and ignore expert opinion, and there has been a change in the leadership of AIDS research. Twelve former FDA commissioners have expressed concern about the disruption of the vaccine regulatory model. Nearly 90% of the FDA's top leaders from last year are no longer at the agency, none in the commissioner's office. Dr. Debra Houry left the CDC 100 days ago because of the erosion of scientific integrity under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.[1][2]