Last week, the Gairdner Foundation announced its 2025 awards to some of the world’s best biomedical scientists. The Gairdners are Canada’s top international prize, and one in four awardees goes on to win the Nobel Prize. This year, in addition to the first Gairdner in its 68 years going to a nurse practitioner, there was talk by the eight awardees and Gairdner head Dr. Janet Rossant about the threats to science by the Trump administration.

Make no mistake, those threats are existential; they threaten science’s very existence.

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