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

The Bethesda Declaration calls for an end to what NIH employees say is the politicization of research which wastes taxpayer money, threatens the well-being of clinical trial participants, and ...

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.

On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda Declaration, a frontal challenge to “policies that undermine ...

NIH officials have tried to voice their concerns in other ways. At internal meetings, leaders of the agency’s institutes and centers have questioned major grant-making policy shifts.

Dissent 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 ...

Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the ...