Sharp cuts in federal funding for medical research are having lasting impact, argues Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University, including driving young researchers out of the field. Universities now increasingly rely on private donors to fill those shortfalls, she writes: “In his State of the Union address, President Obama announced his support for precision medicine, an exciting new field that combines genomics and digital data to target treatments for diseases.