On this week's on the media, as funding for research hangs by a thread, some academics are worried about what has already been lost.

The time has come to reclaim our once-grade educational institutions from the radical left, and we will do that.

The Trump administration has now frozen more than $2 billion in federal research funding.

This would impact medical engineering and science research at the school.

That is looking for cures for some of our most devastating diseases.

I've lost grants that have totaled $6 or $7 million.

One of the things that he told us several times was that there are no bad words.

Those of us who were spending a lot of time most days evaluating grants for their use of bad words,

know that that's not the case.

Now we're behind.

Already?

Yeah.

Like every serious person understands, we are now behind China.

It's season two of the Harvard Plan, our deep dive into the assault on universities.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Michael Lohinger. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. In the Trump administration's pressure campaign on universities,

one of the most potent weapons has turned out to be something a lot of people never thought of

as a weapon at all. Grants to study deadly illnesses like colon cancer. Here's our cell culture room.

Oh, wow. Where we do genetic screens. You have the white lab coats on hangers.

Yes, exactly.

Harvard Medical School's Camilla Naxerova.

We heard from her last week in the first episode of the Harvard Plan season two,

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