WORCESTER, Mass. - The UMass Chan Medical School community joined Governor Maura Healey on Tuesday to sound the alarm about widespread cuts to research grants from the National Institutes of Health.

Researchers and school leaders said studies on everything from HIV to ALS have been impacted, and Governor Healey said $30 million in federal grant funding has already been withheld.

“Institutions like UMass Chan here in Massachusetts are changing and have changed people’s lives, literally saved lives by curing diseases,” Healey said. “All of that is under risk, and it’s the result of a terribly misguided and self-inflicted wound by the Trump Administration.”

UMass Chan recently cut class sizes and paused faculty recruitment amid the uncertainty, as the school relies heavily on NIH funding.

Last year alone, UMass Chan secured more than $190 million in federal grants, more than 26 entire states received.

Craig Mello, a biologist and professor of molecular medicine, said patients will suffer most from the funding cuts. Mello was also the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

“It may be someone you love, it may even be you who could benefit from these therapies,” Mello said. “My heart breaks every day for the patients and the families who could benefit from the work that’s going on here.”

Hundreds of NIH grants nationwide have been canceled since President Trump took office as the administration targets science which mentions diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and other topics.

Last week, a federal judge banned the NIH from limiting medical research funding, but Governor Healey and UMass Chan leaders said it hasn’t been restored, and it’s creating uncertainty.

“Graduate student, postdocs and junior faculty are looking at their careers and wondering what their future looks like, and if it can continue to be in science, research and medicine,” Healey said.

“It is shocking to an academic community like ours that research would be attacked, particularly by folks who believe America should be the best,” said Chancellor Michael Collins.

Governor Healey said an additional $50 million in federal funding to UMass Chan is at risk, which could impact work in gene therapy, rare disease research, digital medicine, neuroscience and other research.