“I have been involved with legitimate grant terminations,” one former NIH official, who worked at the agency for many years, told me. “I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

Pausing Federal Register notice publication means numerous NIH study ... "Next date on the website is currently in May. Are we going to lose an entire funding cycle?" ...

Already, the meeting freeze has stalled about 16,000 grant applications vying for around $1.5 billion in NIH funding, one of the people who is familiar with the grant-making process said.

and the NIH only holds three funding cycles per year, said Carole LaBonne, a professor of molecular biosciences at ...