NIH cuts could have 'negative consequences' for Long Island economy, says business groups' letter to New York congressional delegation
Local economies depend on grant recipients, the letter said, "to conduct critical research that drives industry innovation." ...
Roll Call9d
Trump NIH nominee aims to soothe senators over embattled agency
He dismissed ongoing turmoil at the agency, noting that he did not make the decisions to lay off thousands of staff at NIH or freeze reviews of grant applications that have essentially put the ...
News Medical7d
NIH plans to centralize peer review process for grants
At NIH, we are working to optimize our resources to support the best science. By centralizing the peer review process, we will not only reduce costs—we will also improve the quality, consistency ...
News Medical11d
NIH funding helps address pediatric disease gaps in clinical trials
Researchers assessed 3,047 clinical trials that were initiated with industry funding and 1,480 clinical trials initiated with NIH funding from 2015 through 2020.
ABC News6d
NIH terminating active research grants related to LGBTQ+, DEI studies
At least 24 termination letters have been sent out, according to one official. Several active research grants related to studies involving LGBTQ+ issues, gender identity and diversity, equity and ...
UPI8d
NIH director nominee outlines his goals to improve public health
Bhattacharya is a Stanford University professor and health researcher, and he has engaged in NIH-funded research for several decades, committee chairman Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said about ...
The Boston Globe10d
NIH needs reforms, but use a scalpel, not a hatchet
Pierre Azoulay is an economist and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Weaknesses in NIH’s 70-plus-year-old institutional approaches are increasingly evident. One sign is that ...
The Atlantic23d
The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials
It came from the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH, and arrived with clear instructions: Post this announcement on your website immediately. The memo announced a new ...
STAT9d
NIH nominee is ‘convinced’ vaccines don’t cause autism, but won’t rule out more studies on the issue
That the presumptive leader of the NIH would endorse that autism isn’t linked to vaccines would not normally be notable. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic and now the country ...
STAT8d
NIH puts former Sexual & Gender Minority Office employees on administrative leave
In December, all of them were reassigned to other offices within the NIH in advance of the second Trump administration, which was expected to dismantle the office. The employees were given little ...
New York Post28d
Top NIH official during COVID-19 — who admitted agency funded gain-of-function research in China — resigns
Dr. Lawrence Tabak, the former acting director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who admitted to Congress last year that his agency funded risky gain-of-function virus research in China ...