June 08, 2026
Police removed five researchers from the annual American Diabetes Association meeting in New Orleans on Friday as they distributed copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration for decimating America’s biomedical research enterprise, MedPage Today first reported.
One of the researchers, Steve Kahn, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, co-authored the editorial in Diabetes Care, which he edits. He told The Washington Post he planned to hand out 1,000 copies to encourage researchers “who feel their livelihoods are threatened by what [the National Institutes of Health] is doing to science” to fight back.
Video taken by MedPage Today shows police confronting the researchers, trying to snatch the editorials and shoving Aaron Kelly, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
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