Researchers: Pennsylvania out nearly $40 million in NIH scientific grants after federal cuts

Researchers say the impact could extend beyond academia, with scientific grant funding often creating jobs and resulting in boons to local economies. Read More

New Data Show Trump Administration’s Illegal, Targeted Withholding of Funds

Newly released federal data provide evidence of the Trump Administration’s illegal withholding of fiscal year 2025 funding that Congress approved and the President signed into law in March, ahead of a ... Read More

Federal judge is 'inclined' to order Trump to restore $500 million in UCLA research grants

A San Francisco-based U.S. district judge, Rita F. Lin, said she was "inclined" to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA that the ... Read More

Georgia researchers, advocates say NIH grant cuts throw science into a ‘downward spiral’

Georgia researchers and advocates say a “chilling effect” is taking hold across Georgia’s universities after the Trump administration succeeded in cutting $783 million in funding for a wide range of ... Read More

Trump administration’s ‘catastrophic’ cuts to HIV/AIDS funding eliminates $2M Meharry grant

The Trump administration has eliminated $2 million in HIV research facility funding for Meharry Medical College after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the National Institutes of Health to cancel ... Read More

How NIH funding cuts could stunt U.S. research for decades

Public and private investment serve different purposes. NIH funding often reduces scientific risk by advancing projects to a stage where companies can invest with greater confidence. Past examples ... Read More

Trump’s executive orders put science’s reliability at risk

The federal government’s targeted ideological bans and defunding efforts make it harder for researchers to understand the state of the world and draw the correct conclusions. Read More

The Trump Administration Misses Key Deadlines for Imposing Restrictions on Gain-of-Function Research

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called ... Read More

Yes, that’s a human brain on a cafeteria tray. UCLA fair shows off science cuts under Trump

UCLA's researchers go low-tech to plead their case to the public with poster boards and props. The Trump administration has suspended more than $500 million in research grants to the university. Read More

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments. Read More

Trump administration wins Supreme Court fight to slash NIH medical research grants tied to DEI, LGBTQ studies

The Trump administration scored a major victory in the Supreme Court Thursday as the justices, in a 5-4 order, cleared his administration to slash more than $783 million in National Institutes of ... Read More