Breakthrough therapies to prevent and target a range of cancers. A new class of anesthetics for servicemembers wounded on the field of battle. The potential to “significantly cut” the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease,

Harvard University, an institution founded on the principles of academic freedom and independence, is now embroiled in a high-stakes battle with the Trump administration over a $2.2 billion funding freeze.

President Donald Trump’s campaign to pressure elite universities into making a wide range of policy changes met its first major resistance when Harvard University sued the US government for freezing billions of dollars in federal funding.