Scientific News Nih Reels With Fear, Uncertainty About Future Of Scientific Research

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

NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs

Dispersing federal research funding, largely concentrated at private universities on the coasts, to the rest of the country is another NIH goal, and scientists supported by transition awards have a ... Read More

Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?

Trump has "shaken the hell" out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now? 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

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

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

Congress is now tasked with finalizing the budget ahead of the new fiscal year, which begins October 1. In July, the Senate rejected the White House’s proposed cuts and instead advanced a modest ... Read More

Changes at NIH give political appointees greater power to fund or block research

NIH scientists said the disruption represents an attack on agency expertise This is a KFF Health News story. The Trump administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists ... Read More

Proposed cuts to NIH funding would have ripple effects on research that could hamper the US for decades

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