More Than 100 Biotech Company Leaders Warn Trump Administration’s Travel Ban Could Hurt U.S. Leadership In Drug Research

The Hill: Drug researchers warn Trump’s travel ban will hurt anti-disease work
“More than 100 leaders in the biotech community warned President Trump that his travel ban could deeply damage U.S. leadership in the development of new medicines. In a letter published in Nature Biotech, a top scientific journal, founders and leaders of biotechnology companies expressed ‘deep concern and opposition’ to the travel ban, which bars citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States…” (Hellmann, 2/7).

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