Julia Marcus, a Harvard infectious disease epidemiologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, is one of them. She had three federal grants related to PrEP, a revolutionary medication that can reduce someone’s risk of contracting HIV, canceled in March.

A Lowcountry nonprofit won its David-versus-Goliath fight against the Trump administration last week when U.S. District Court Judge Richard Gergel ruled federal officials illegally canceled an $11.4 million Biden-era local grant from the U.