NIH slashes calls for funding by 90% and pivots away from agency-directed science, saying the approach will boost innovation. But some researchers worry that understudied areas of science will suffer.
White House lifts hold on NIH research spending
Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH
NIH director launches "Scientific Freedom" lectures with non-scientist. First speaker minimizes climate change, COVID risks—and is a lab leak proponent.
NIH reneges on recognizing union for early-career researchers
New NIH grant advances Lupus protein research - EurekAlert!
Delays in awards and funding calls worry NIH-funded researchers
$3 million NIH grant funds national study of Medicare Advantage’s benefit expansion into social supports - EurekAlert!
Major NIH grant renewal fuels next phase of chronic pain research at UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry - EurekAlert!
White House stalls release of approved US science budgets. Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.
VJLabs @ Terasaki Institute awarded NIH R21 grant to advance xenotransplantation research using organ-on-a-chip technology - EurekAlert!
NIH research grant funding rates plummeted in 2025
Key NIH research institute told to remove references to 'pandemic preparedness'
Nature: NIH infectious-disease institute (NIAID) to drop pandemic preparation. Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
Another NIH institute loses its director
Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.'s NIH funds "absurd" study.
Trump admin is "destroying medical research," Senate report finds. In a Senate hearing Tuesday, NIH director dismissed concern about research chaos.
Senate panel slams Trump’s NIH chief for grant cuts, vaccine views
Houston Methodist physician granted NIH award to explore how virtual reality therapy may combat ICU delirium - EurekAlert!
University of Oklahoma researcher awarded NIH grant to advance tribally defined approaches to genomic research - EurekAlert!
