A look at how early 2025 executive orders, including spending freezes and restrictions on external meetings at NIH, are affecting San Diego's biotech companies and local industry meetups.
It's literally 10 days since inauguration and you know, pretty much dozens, if not maybe 100 EOs have been signed, completely changing the way the executive branch is running things, including a complete pause on on all spend unless it's VA or military related or border related. I know on the NIH side, you know, not just a freeze on spend, but freeze on all external meetings. And so actually one of my co organizers of the AI Bio meetup was originally not supposed to make last week's meeting because he had a meeting in Washington with NIH and he said, oh, my meeting was canceled. They've got a freeze on all external meetings. Anyone outside NIH NIH can't meet with right now.
