Harvard University ploughs $250m into research after U.S. govt cuts

Harvard fights federal cuts, vows $250 million for research amid Trump administration's oversight demands and funding freezes.

Harvard University says it will plough $250 million into funding "critical research" after the U.S. government announced fresh budget cuts to the elite school.

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"Although we cannot absorb the entire cost of the suspended or cancelled federal funds, we will mobilise financial resources to support critical research activity for a transitional period," said Harvard President Alan Garber and Provost John Manning in a joint statement on Wednesday.

They said the university would "continue to work with our researchers to identify alternative funding sources."

The statement slammed the "unlawful freeze and termination" of grants which were "stopping lifesaving research and, in some cases, losing years of important work."