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Diana DeGette: “The University of Colorado had a grant canceled that focused…”

Featuring: Diana DeGette, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 1

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Diana DeGette Criticizes Health Bureaucracy Layoffs and Calls for Congressional Action

Published | Video Starts at 03:13

That grant supported FAMU's recruitment of two investigators, one specializing in cancer biology and the other in artificial intelligence. And The University of Colorado had a grant canceled that focused on a platform technology to rapidly develop vaccines for dangerous emerging threats like viruses like Ebola. I'm shocked that we would just sit by and watch grants like this be canceled. It's not only NIH funded work that's being attacked, though. (03:13–03:25)

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Asserts that a grant for vaccine development at the University of Colorado was canceled.

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