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NIH budget cuts are threatening key medical research programs, shrinking training grants, and leaving young researchers ...
The NIH director was sworn into his role on April 1, after many of those DOGE-led terminations took place. But he said that appeals will move swiftly. “It won’t take 18 months.
NIH is the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research and has long enjoyed bipartisan support from U.S. lawmakers. The Trump administration has proposed cutting $18 billion, or 40% ...
National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists report that a first-in-human clinical trial of a new therapy based on the plant-derived molecule resiniferatoxin (RTX) shows that it is a safe and ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have developed a new surgical technique for implanting multiple tissue grafts in the eye's retina. The findings in animals may help advance treatment ...
During a Monday town-hall-style address at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., Bhattacharya told a crowded auditorium that “it’s possible that the pandemic was caused by research ...
Phelps said that some of the scientists working on her NIH trial were among the cuts. Phelps was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer in 2020, at age 38. She was nearly eight months pregnant ...
It found that the NIH terminated $1.81 billion in grant funding between Feb. 28 and April 8, 30 percent of which had not been spent at the time of grant termination. That amounted to terminated ...
The researchers found that 694 NIH grants were terminated across 24 of the 26 institutes and centers that administered active NIH grants between Feb. 28 and April 8, 2025.
Michael Liu, M.Phil., from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues calculated the number and corresponding funding amounts of terminated NIH grants overall and by institute or center and ...
In President Donald Trump's second term, nearly 700 NIH grants totalling $1.8 billion were terminated. The only two centers spared by the cuts were the NIH Clinical Center and the National Center ...