‘We have everything on the line right now,’ Colorado families with complex medical needs worry as federal research cuts loom

“Any new things that he’s doing?” Gabe’s doctor, Michael Edwards [assistant professor of pediatrics at CU School of Medicine], asked. … One of Edward’s jobs is to run the Cancer Predisposition clinic at Children’s.
 
The future for kids like Gabe Wilson depends on medical research taking place at the sprawling CU Anschutz medical campus and other research hospitals and universities across the country. The prospect of that funding being reduced or cut off is discouraging to Edwards. “I like to think that the thing we could all agree on is helping patients like Gabe,” he said. “It feels like (public) discourse is really difficult when you can’t agree on something as simple as that, that you think we would all support.”
 
“We are on the cusp of curing a lot of diseases that have never been cured before, not just in cancer, not just in blood disorders,” said Lia Gore, a pediatric oncologist [and professor of pediatrics at CU School of Medicine] who specializes in blood cancers and leads the hospital’s team working to eradicate pediatric cancers. “We're going to go backward with cuts in funding. There is no question.”