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Drop in NIH funding delays thousands of studies

National Institutes of Health funding for new research is about $1 billion behind The agency awarded about 1,900 new grants this year, fewer than half the usual number Experts say the delays are ...
STAT

Trump administration drops court fight to cap NIH payments for research overhead costs

Megan covers the intersection of science and society. How is biomedical research funded? Who benefits? And how do new technologies reflect and shape our values? You can reach Megan on Signal at ...
Nature

NIH pivots away from agency-directed science

A striking change in how the world’s largest biomedical funding agency solicits research proposals has sparked debate about how it should fund science. US science after a year of Trump: what has been ...
MedPage Today

NIH Funds Still Not Getting to Researchers

Even though Congress rejected cuts to the NIH budget and passed a funding bill more than a month ago, that money isn't yet making it into the hands of researchers, experts say. In an analysis of ...
The Daily Record (Maryland)

Trump administration cannot slash NIH research funding, court rules

BOSTON – A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot carry out steep cuts to federal grant funding provided by the Bethesda-based National Institutes of ...
The Conversation

How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growth

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to interview for a summer job. It turned out to be the start of a lifelong ...
Forbes

New NIH Process To Choose Grant Awardees Will No Longer Use Paylines

The National Institutes of Health longstanding "payline" has helped everyone see the connection between the scientific peer review process and NIH grant funding decisions. What will the latest NIH ...
The Daily Northwestern

With millions in NIH grants terminated, Northwestern researchers seek reinstatement

A slew of National Institutes of Health grant terminations in the spring left affected Northwestern researchers with few avenues to reinstate funding for their disrupted multi-year research projects.
Inside Higher Ed

How a Smaller NIH Could Have Hindered Medical Research

Since the mid-1940s, the National Institutes of Health has sent billions of dollars to university researchers whose work has led to the creation of scores of lifesaving treatments for a range of ...
STAT

Layers of political oversight have ‘put sand in the gears’ of NIH grant funding

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Megan covers the intersection of science and society. How is ...
The Business Journals

Children’s Inn at NIH makes ‘difficult decisions’ on expansion amid shifting funding climate

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The nonprofit’s $55 million ...
Forbes

Federal Judge Reinstates $1 Billion In NIH Grants, Citing ‘Blatant’ Government Discrimination

Bethesda, Maryland, USA: Bethesda Campus of the National Institutes of Health. On June 16, 2025 Judge William G. Young of the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts ordered the ...