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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/

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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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.