Vanderbilt University Medical Center has implemented a hiring freeze and begun layoffs amid reductions in federal funding.
A VUMC spokesperson confirmed that hiring for most research and administrative positions has been paused, and some positions have been eliminated as the medical center works to reduce operating costs.
The cuts are already affecting researchers like Angel Bodrick, a fourth-year Meharry and Vanderbilt Ph.D. candidate studying Alzheimer’s disease with a focus on racial disparities within the African American community…