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The storm of protest included voices ranging from the eminent to mid-career and early-career researchers, as well as the UN, which said the cuts “bode ill for developing countries, and particularly least developed countries.” The email added, “We are still working through what this means for the ODA projects funded by UKRI and we will shortly provide a briefing detailing the impact on the various grant types.” [...]that briefing happens, researchers are in the dark. Beate Kampmann, professor of paediatric infection and immunity and director of The Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK, says that thanks to GCRF funding, a new collaboration has developed between paediatricians and scientists in the UK, Mali, Nigeria, The Gambia, and Tanzania to advance the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis in children—a significant problem, not only in Africa. Adam Coutts is a senior research fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK, and a research associate in the Department of Sociology, who is part of a team running a highly productive partnership focusing on the Middle East that has been crucial to building mental health, cancer, and palliative care services for adults and children and in helping partners manage the COVID-19 pandemic.