The NIH has canceled $9.5 billion worth of funding through 2,100 research grants since January and another $2.6 billion in contracts supporting clinical trials, according to a recent letter signed ...

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% ...

NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump’s deep cuts in public health research Jenna Norton, who works as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md., on Friday.

Thousands of NIH employees signed a petition-style complaint about problems the agency has experienced since HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure began.

Nevertheless, respectful dissent in science is productive. We all want the NIH to succeed.” The NIH’s nearly $48 billion budget makes it the world’s largest public funder of scientific research.

The allusion in the NIH letter, officials told me, isn’t meant glibly: “We hoped he might see himself in us as we were putting those concerns forward,” Jenna Norton, a program director at ...

Dissent NIH scientists publish “Bethesda Declaration” rebuking Trump admin The letter is modeled after the NIH director's controversial "Great Barrington Declaration." ...

More than 90 NIH scientists signed their names to the “Bethesda Declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health.

Sixty-six current and 23 recently-terminated staff at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), along with 253 anonymous colleagues, sent an open letter to Director Jay Bhattacharya today ...

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 ...

Politics NIH details how Trump budget would cut support for grants, training, and research centers Nearly 1,800 fewer new grants would be awarded under 2026 spending plan ...

China-led drug tests on hundreds of beagle puppies won't be conducted anymore on the US taxpayers' dime, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) confirmed to The Post on Thursday.