She was attending a cancer research conference when she picked up the phone. Her lab was searching for ways to isolate and kill them when the federal funding freeze hit. Women in the United States, on average, have a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer in their lifetimes. Dr. Joan Brugge discusses an image in a gene testing experiment with a colleague at the Harvard Medical School's Brugge Lab. Then this week, the Trump administration took steps to bar Harvard from receiving any future federal research funding.