Scientific News Trump S Nih Freeze Puts Scientific Research At Risk

Postscripts from the frontlines of Trump’s attacks on science: no simple happy endings

Leading efforts to translate research into treatments at the NIH had felt, for physician Josh Fessel, like the way he could help the most people. But a month into the second Trump administration, he ... Read More

The Ivies can weather the Trump administration's research cuts. Public universities that have the most to lose

Most of the media coverage of the federal government's recent cuts in federal research money for universities has focused on its effects on a handful of elite Ivy League universities, such as Harvard, ... Read More

After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left

Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. Read More

See the alarming extent of NIH and NSF funding cuts in 2025

In 2025, more than 3,800 research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation were terminated or frozen as part of the Trump administration’s effort to realign ... Read More

‘A huge rupture in everything’: US science faced major upheaval in 2025

Amid enormous shifts, many scientists pushed back and risked dismissal from their jobs even as federal agencies fired thousands of employees ... Read More

Donald Trump and Elon Musk put science on the chopping block in 2025

The Trump administration has targeted everything from public health to space missions for funding cuts, bringing an end to the longstanding US policy of scientific pursuits as a path towards progress ... Read More

The Stakes: California may ask voters to offset Trump cuts with a bond measure to fund scientific research

He wants the Legislature to ask voters to support a $23 billion bond measure to fund science and research in California. Last month, Wiener launched a campaign to get the measure on the 2026 ballot, ... Read More

Battle between Trump and universities hurting scientific research in need of federal funding

For generations, federal research funding to universities has fueled breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and national defense. Now, the White House is using that support as leverage — pressuring a ... Read More

Scientific researchers urge Congress to increase funding to the NIH as the shutdown ends

The record-breaking federal government shutdown marked yet another impediment to scientific research efforts at the Wistar Institute this year. After a year in which federal research funding was ... Read More

Genesis Mission: Why Trump's plan to put AIs in charge of science could backfire

Donald Trump's new "Genesis Mission" initiative promises to use artificial intelligence to reinvent how science is done, in a bid to move the dial on the hardest challenges in areas like robotics, ... Read More

Pa. scientific researchers urge Congress to increase funding to the NIH as the shutdown ends

The record-breaking federal government shutdown marked yet another impediment to scientific research efforts at the Wistar Institute this year. After a year in which federal research funding was ... Read More