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In response to the cuts, UCLA, USC and other campuses have canceled some research efforts or rescinded some doctoral candidate and postdoctoral research position offers.

After living in Delhi for almost a decade, the couple moved to the US where Mr Suri joined the prestigious Georgetown University as a postdoctoral fellow.

As part of this work, Huazhan Liu, Kachroo’s postdoctoral scholar and this study’s lead researcher, was trying to clarify how the amino acid lysine gets broken down and used in plants.

These questions are not just academic for cell biologist and postdoctoral researcher Shumpei Maruyama, who is thinking about becoming a research professor.

Christine Liu, a postdoctoral researcher in the UC San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, whose salary is funded by the NIH, said her immediate work had not been affected by the pause.