jeff hager has more on the impact. >> reporter: he survived a stroke a decade ago and jose mull dan nadredits the doctors at johns hopkins for saving his life. >> they've given me the help. >> reporter: this year doctors will have $38 million less for research due to sequestration. the director of the national institutes of health, dr. francis collins said it has been forced to slash other institutions as well. >> might have imbt next breakthrough in cancer, the start of the next person's career to win the nobel prize shall-- we'll never know. oar are now prospective medical researchers may have to look elsewhere, even out of the country. >> this is not the only year. we will lose ginnations of tam -- generations of talent and research that will improve the lives of our american people and have an impact on our economy all because we can't come up with finding reductions in our public debt of $100 million a year. >> reporter: for jose, the sequester placed a price on the very research that saved his life, and that which could save throws who suffer from cancer, heart disease and other d