Trump halts research to help babies with heart defects

[Anonymous]

This sadly isn't new or very unique. My PhD neighbor at NIH was probationary and got fired on Valentine's Day. She did research on a childhood cancer.

[Anonymous]

MAGAs want all women to have ten kids, but only three that survive to adulthood.

[Anonymous]

The Defense Department issued the stop order? May the hand of God strike down the entire house. Hell is empty and the devils are there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pediaflow-research-babies-heart-defects-trump-administration-rcna197155

For James Antaki, a biomedical engineering professor at Cornell University, the $6.7 million government grant meant babies would be saved. Awarded by the Department of Defense on March 30, it would allow his team at Cornell to ramp up production and testing of PediaFlow, a device that boosts blood flow in infants with heart defects.

A week later, that all changed.

The Defense Department sent Antaki a stop-work order on April 8 informing him that his team wouldn’t get the money, intended to be distributed over four years. Three decades of research is now at risk, and Antaki said he has no idea why the government cut off funding.

Pro-life party, folks. Endless money for military parades and shoving planes into the sea. No money to help sick babies.

Imagine, imagine, if America First meant putting money into research and services that would make us smarter, stronger, and healthier. Instead they want to kick us all right into the dirt.

they're using the money for other purposes. Not just military. The administartion is putting more money into autism research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I fund DoD research for a living, and I'm struggling to understand why the DoD needs to be funding this. I'm curious what the connection is to the DoD mission. We can all support helping babies with holes in their hearts, but that's not the DoD mission. There are other people who's mission this supports. This is pretty sizable research grant for 6.1 or 6.2 funding. Is the NIH funding he is also receiving cut off? Furthermore, this researcher has spent 30 years on this device. What makes us think he will finally get there with this grant? Lots of questions.

So are you against all CDMRP funding?
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/

[Anonymous]

Such a hard hitting piece...I mean there is little to no information here. Why is the DOD funding this? How much funding have they used over the last 20+ years and what positive progress can be documented? Its also interesting that private companies have no interest. Legit question - how do we analyze the value of this money - listen I am all for anything that will save babies lives but there has to be some level of oversight or maybe we don't care and we just throw money around to all these types of things and hope they are all legit...there isn't an easy answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Such a hard hitting piece...I mean there is little to no information here. Why is the DOD funding this? How much funding have they used over the last 20+ years and what positive progress can be documented? Its also interesting that private companies have no interest. Legit question - how do we analyze the value of this money - listen I am all for anything that will save babies lives but there has to be some level of oversight or maybe we don't care and we just throw money around to all these types of things and hope they are all legit...there isn't an easy answer.

Are you suggesting that there isn't currently oversight over these grants, just because this one article didn't provide those details for you? You're insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pediaflow-research-babies-heart-defects-trump-administration-rcna197155

For James Antaki, a biomedical engineering professor at Cornell University, the $6.7 million government grant meant babies would be saved. Awarded by the Department of Defense on March 30, it would allow his team at Cornell to ramp up production and testing of PediaFlow, a device that boosts blood flow in infants with heart defects.

A week later, that all changed.

The Defense Department sent Antaki a stop-work order on April 8 informing him that his team wouldn’t get the money, intended to be distributed over four years. Three decades of research is now at risk, and Antaki said he has no idea why the government cut off funding.

Pro-life party, folks. Endless money for military parades and shoving planes into the sea. No money to help sick babies.

Imagine, imagine, if America First meant putting money into research and services that would make us smarter, stronger, and healthier. Instead they want to kick us all right into the dirt.

they're using the money for other purposes. Not just military. The administartion is putting more money into autism research.

LOL, it isn't autism research, they want to create a "database" so people can be segregated. And the research being conducted is to try to show RFK Jr's nutty hypothesis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Such a hard hitting piece...I mean there is little to no information here. Why is the DOD funding this? How much funding have they used over the last 20+ years and what positive progress can be documented? Its also interesting that private companies have no interest. Legit question - how do we analyze the value of this money - listen I am all for anything that will save babies lives but there has to be some level of oversight or maybe we don't care and we just throw money around to all these types of things and hope they are all legit...there isn't an easy answer.

Private sector, being profit driven, doesn't have interest in solutions that aren't going to be long term money makers, and there simply are not enough kid born with these issues to make it profitable. This is EXACTLY why the government steps in and provides funding research. Why DOD? How many troops have heart issues or might suffer heart trauma in combat to where having more knowledge that is applicable across the board is helpful?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pediaflow-research-babies-heart-defects-trump-administration-rcna197155

For James Antaki, a biomedical engineering professor at Cornell University, the $6.7 million government grant meant babies would be saved. Awarded by the Department of Defense on March 30, it would allow his team at Cornell to ramp up production and testing of PediaFlow, a device that boosts blood flow in infants with heart defects.

A week later, that all changed.

The Defense Department sent Antaki a stop-work order on April 8 informing him that his team wouldn’t get the money, intended to be distributed over four years. Three decades of research is now at risk, and Antaki said he has no idea why the government cut off funding.

Pro-life party, folks. Endless money for military parades and shoving planes into the sea. No money to help sick babies.

Imagine, imagine, if America First meant putting money into research and services that would make us smarter, stronger, and healthier. Instead they want to kick us all right into the dirt.

Heart defects since age of birth? A device to target one of many symptoms of said heart defect- the blood flow issue.

What country pays for that forever?

Devices that boosts blow flow in infants and must be replaced via open heart surgery every time the child grow in mass and blood volume?

[Anonymous]

Who pays for lifetime $50,000,000 / patient of heart defect blood flow solutions?

Who pays for the $500,000,000 of required R&D to develop and test it?
Meanwhile….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I fund DoD research for a living, and I'm struggling to understand why the DoD needs to be funding this. I'm curious what the connection is to the DoD mission. We can all support helping babies with holes in their hearts, but that's not the DoD mission. There are other people who's mission this supports. This is pretty sizable research grant for 6.1 or 6.2 funding. Is the NIH funding he is also receiving cut off? Furthermore, this researcher has spent 30 years on this device. What makes us think he will finally get there with this grant? Lots of questions.

Military monitors a lot and has lots of data so often their scientists and doctors “connect the dots” on drug discovery or treatments or devices or procedures.

Then someone needs do sell/buy the tech or data or IP transfer/monetization and commercialize it or they do themselves. Universities do the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pediaflow-research-babies-heart-defects-trump-administration-rcna197155

For James Antaki, a biomedical engineering professor at Cornell University, the $6.7 million government grant meant babies would be saved. Awarded by the Department of Defense on March 30, it would allow his team at Cornell to ramp up production and testing of PediaFlow, a device that boosts blood flow in infants with heart defects.

A week later, that all changed.

The Defense Department sent Antaki a stop-work order on April 8 informing him that his team wouldn’t get the money, intended to be distributed over four years. Three decades of research is now at risk, and Antaki said he has no idea why the government cut off funding.

Pro-life party, folks. Endless money for military parades and shoving planes into the sea. No money to help sick babies.

Imagine, imagine, if America First meant putting money into research and services that would make us smarter, stronger, and healthier. Instead they want to kick us all right into the dirt.

they're using the money for other purposes. Not just military. The administartion is putting more money into autism research.

LOL, it isn't autism research, they want to create a "database" so people can be segregated. And the research being conducted is to try to show RFK Jr's nutty hypothesis.

We need a database listing morons who take their grandchildren swimming in Rock Creek.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/13/politics/rfk-jr-rock-creek-photos

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I fund DoD research for a living, and I'm struggling to understand why the DoD needs to be funding this. I'm curious what the connection is to the DoD mission. We can all support helping babies with holes in their hearts, but that's not the DoD mission. There are other people who's mission this supports. This is pretty sizable research grant for 6.1 or 6.2 funding. Is the NIH funding he is also receiving cut off? Furthermore, this researcher has spent 30 years on this device. What makes us think he will finally get there with this grant? Lots of questions.

So are you against all CDMRP funding?
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/

Most of that research is specifically relevant to veterans or active duty (I.e rare cancers, burns, ovarian cancer). Really failing to see the relevance to national security here and why DoD should be funding this. If this research is so valuable; why isn’t HHS, NSF, NIH, etc. And I’m speaking as a mother who has a child who was born with a hole in his heart.