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Pittsburgh is bracing for research job losses and career disruptions as federal funding cuts take shape.

The Trump administration's National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding cap could cost Pittsburgh institutions over $100 million in research operating expenses.

“It would have a similar effect to the closing of a steel mill,” said Vaughn Cooper, a professor of microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh. “This is not a steel town anymore; it’s a biomedical research town, and those cuts would affect Pittsburgh perhaps more than any other city in the country.”

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