The University of Maryland joined 17 other universities in backing Harvard University’s federal funding lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday.

The institutions requested to file an amicus brief in support of Harvard’s lawsuit regarding more than $2 billion in frozen federal grant money. The brief read that each institution has “received millions of dollars in federal investments in scientific research over the decades.”

“The elimination of funding at Harvard negatively impacts the entire ecosystem,” the court document read. “The cuts will disrupt ongoing research, ruin experiments and datasets, destroy the careers of aspiring scientists, and deter long-term investments at universities across the country.”

Judge Allison Burroughs granted the request to allow the academic institutions to file the brief when ready.

The court document argued that the brief will “offer a broader perspective” and “add dimensionality” to the probable consequences that Harvard’s continued federal funding battle will have.

Harvard University has faced months of slashes to federal funding and cancelled grants.

Harvard filed its initial lawsuit against the Trump administration on April 21, just after it froze $2.2 billion in federal grants and other contracts. The lawsuit said the federal government’s cuts to research funding were unlawful, including those on other universities.

About 70 grants and contracts — totaling about $12 million — have been cancelled or paused at this university since Trump returned to office in January, university president Darryll Pines confirmed to The Diamondback in May.

This university has also faced losses in state funding after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore cut more than $150 million from the University System of Maryland. This university later tightened its hiring guidelines, The Diamondback reported in April.

Other institutions that signed on the request include Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania.

This university did not respond to The Diamondback’s request for comment.