The agency, for the second time this year, has withdrawn applications for the F31 diversity fellowship, which is designed to ...

Dozens of NIH study sections — meetings in which panels of expert scientists consider which research projects the agency should support — have been canceled in recent weeks, after the Trump ...

While federal judges tried to halt the funding freeze, in some cases the Trump administration did not comply with their ...

Former NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus speaks out about what recent budget cuts and policy changes could mean for science.

Agency says move will save money and reduce bias, but researchers are concerned about associated staff reductions ...

But under President Donald Trump, the NIH has canceled many scheduled study sections and for weeks prevented any new ones ...

Following peer review, applications are passed to the NIH’s funding institutes and centers, such as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) or the National Cancer Institute ...

According to the release, the NIH's proposal to centralize peer review is "under review with implementation pending external ...

Although university researchers don’t believe the change itself poses a clear risk to the scientific review process, ongoing chaos at the agency is fueling a degree of skepticism.

Recent proposed cuts to NIH funding have left researchers across the university unsure about the future of their work.

These convenings of study sections, as they’re known, are the first step in deciding who gets NIH funding. But they’ve slowed to a standstill since the Trump administration’s announcement in ...