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Colleen Carney, a Ryerson psychology professor, came from Duke University last summer to take a faculty position.
She said the government's decision to cut funding after years of investment reminds her of the situation at Duke when she first started working in the U.S. while George W. Bush was President.
"They have so much money in infrastructure, you don't just build everything up and then not pay for people to stick around," she said.
Carney, who set up a clinical study of sleep disorders, said the investments made in research at Ryerson earlier this decade, specifically in creating the Psychology Research and Training Centre, were a major factor in her decision to come back to Canada.
Although she has funding from the American-based National Institutes of Health for the next four years, she's worried many people will be lost to emigration if funding cuts drag on.
"I'm nervous about all the cuts," she said.