Dr. Mary-Claire King

To identify mutations in these genes that predispose to such high risks of devastating diseases while they can still be prevented is enormously important.

So from my own personal perspective, that's what I'm advocating for most strongly now.

Well, in the current climate, it's hard to say.

Most things are hard to say in the current climate.

In principle, there's nothing in this that runs afoul of any of the ways of thinking of Maha.

But it's hard to say.

I see no reason to stop advocating for it in the current climate.

Oh, we're on a roller coaster at every level.

I mean, in my own little lab, in the department, in the School of Medicine, at the university.

The very short answer is yes.

At this moment, and I mean as of

Last night when I most recently checked, my funding was intact.

I haven't checked yet this morning because I'm here speaking with you.

It's a roller coaster.

One never knows.

Funding of Friends is present and then it's gone and then it's back.

And I'm not thinking about funding that has to do with...

DEI initiatives.

I'm just talking about research projects that one is ghosted about.

So, yes, it certainly had an effect.