Dubbed the Bethesda Declaration, the declaration says that under the Trump administration, the NIH has been forced to politicize and stigmatize important research.

O n Monday, June 9, 2025, more than 300 current and former employees across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) signed and submitted a formal letter to Jay Bhattacharya, director of the NIH, ...

Organizers say more than 340 staffers on the NIH's sprawling campus in Bethesda, Md., just outside Washington, D.C., sent the document to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya appealing to him to protect ...

They called it the Bethesda Declaration, for the location of the NIH. “We hope you will welcome this dissent, which we modeled after your Great Barrington Declaration,” the staffers wrote.

They called it the Bethesda Declaration, for the location of the NIH. “We hope you will welcome this dissent, which we modeled after your Great Barrington Declaration,” the staffers wrote.

The mask comes off. The four-page letter, addressed to Jay Bhattacharya but also sent to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and members of Congress who oversee the NIH, was endorsed by 250 ...

The letter, titled the Bethesda Declaration (a reference to the NIH’s location in Bethesda, Maryland), is modeled after the Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter published by Bhattacharya ...

NIH scientists publish “Bethesda Declaration” rebuking Trump admin The letter is modeled after the NIH director's controversial "Great Barrington Declaration." ...

They also urged Bhattacharya to reverse a policy that aims to implement a new, and lower, flat 15% rate for paying for indirect costs of research at universities, which supports shared lab space, ...

Despite fears of retaliation, the Bethesda Declaration has been signed by over 300 NIH Staff including 92 staff who signed their full name. “Standing up in this way is a risk, but I am much more ...