STAT+: Reeling from Trump contract cuts, the National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’
Nation's leading advisory body on issues of science and technology is "preparing for a fairly radical downsizing."
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is headed for a major reorganization as it tries to reduce its overhead amid big losses in funding from the federal government.
Facing a shortfall of roughly $40 million in terminated contracts, the nation’s leading advisory body on issues of science and technology has already had to lay off 50 of its 1,000 employees and could lose as many as 250 more by the end of the summer, National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt told STAT in an interview.
“We’ve got to have a much leaner, slimmer organization in order to go forward,” McNutt said. “We are preparing for a fairly radical downsizing.”
