Scientific News Trump S Nih Freeze Puts Scientific Research At Risk

Funding chaos may unravel decades of biomedical research

Battles between the Trump administration and academic institutions are putting important biomedical advances in limbo. 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. Read More

Science: Total NSF, NIH Funding Didn’t Plunge in Fiscal 2025

According to the journal’s analysis, “NSF committed approximately $8.17 billion to grants, fellowships, and other funding mechanisms in the 2025 fiscal year”—which ended Sept. 30—“about the same as in ... Read More

Amid funding cuts and public health battles, NIH issues autism research grants

Researchers at Cornell University have received a $5.1 million grant from the Autism Data Science Initiative, as part of the Trump administration's increased scrutiny on the disorder and controversial ... 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

Trump jeopardising US role as scientific leader: Nobel officials

Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP. Since ... Read More

This US government shutdown is different: what it means for science

Dan Garisto is a science journalist in Syracuse, New York. “When you shut it down, you have to do lay-offs. So, we’d be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected,” Trump said on 30 ... Read More

Scientific Journals in the Hot Seat

Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry. 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