"We are in a situation of extreme urgency." This is the desperate plea of a dozen Catalan scientists who had collaborative projects with American institutions and who have seen their funding cut off by the Donald Trump administration without any explanation. In total, 12 biomedical projects are affected, projects that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) had approved for funding of $6.3 million—approximately €5.4 million—and which were to be sold entirely in Catalonia between 2025 and 2022.