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Malik Evans: “If [the NIH funding change] would have happened, it would…”

Featuring: Malik Evans, Democratic | Mayor of Rochester, New York

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S1E4: Talking with the Mayor

Published | Video Starts at 02:58

They wanted to say, oh, I don't care if we guaranteed you the money, we're going to change the way we give you that money. If [the NIH funding change] would have happened, it would have resulted in millions of dollars of loss to the University of Rochester. What do you think they would have had to do? Lay off our folks that live in the city. So we joined suit. We got an injunction on that. (02:58–39:12)

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Asserts that changes in NIH funding would have caused significant financial loss to the University of Rochester.

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