UIC faculty protest proposed Trump administration cuts to federal research

Professor Tim Koh has spent years researching ways to improve healing for people with diabetic wounds, but with federal funding for his latest project set to expire this month, the future of his work and career is now uncertain. Koh, a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, said he’s one of thousands of researchers potentially affected by the Trump administration’s cuts at the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Science Foundation.