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As far as the institution it's very likely St. Judes. They took a ton of Trump money and have floors plastered with Trump family photos to play to their narcis
by epistasis 2y ago
As far as the institution it's very likely St. Judes. They took a ton of Trump money and have floors plastered with Trump family photos to play to their narcissism. St. Judes is also rolling in tons of private donations that most basic hard science would never ever receive. They are also extremely bad at data sharing and have a poor name in the pediatric cancer community for it, even though the amount of money they have collected makes it one of the better places to perform research. So it's likely that St. Judes is completely protected from all the cutoffs, but even if they got the same cutoffs the private money is highly insulating. But as I said, lots of other pediatric cancer researchers are able to live off of private donations in ways that others could only dream of, so any other similarly funded institution (which would be much smaller than St. Judes) would have similar protection. Private donations go to the areas where the donors care, rather than to the areas where the scientific community finds most promising. Nobody is going to get private donations to sequence the genome the first time or build the LHC.