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

NIH budget cuts threaten the future of biomedical research — and the young scientists behind it

A proposed $18-billion cut to the NIH’s 2026 federal budget has frozen or terminated thousands of grants, sparking widespread alarm among researchers. Scientists warn the cuts could lead to a major ... Read More

Confusion at NIH as administration halts, then releases, billions of dollars for scientific research

NIH said in an email that it was working to make the "limitation short-term." Billions of dollars of National Institutes of Health research were stuck in limbo for hours, causing confusion after a ... Read More

Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations

Earlier this month, a Trump administration plan to cut the National Institutes of Health budget by more than 40% was leaked to the press. The preliminary budget sent shockwaves through the nation's ... Read More

Trump administration cut $2.7 billion in NIH research funding through March, Senate committee minority report says

A Senate committee report by minority staff, and obtained by CNN, slams the Trump administration for terminating some funding for research, firing thousands of federal workers and removing certain ... Read More

A breast cancer researcher at Harvard loses 1/3 of her staff amid NIH funding cuts

Amid NIH funding delays, clawbacks 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

$1.8 billion in NIH grant cuts hit minority health research the hardest

The headlines keep coming: Another federal grant funding medical research terminated. Another lab devoted to mental health losing its funding. Another clinical trial stopped. It’s all part of actions ... Read More

Abrupt Pause, Unpause of Grants Doesn’t End NIH Funding Concerns

As senators object to President Trump’s proposal to gut the National Institutes of Health’s budget for next fiscal year, questions linger over what’s happening with the money it’s currently supposed ... Read More

Despite resumption of NIH grant reviews, research funding gap grew

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ... Read More

Federal cuts and uncertainty threaten Maryland's biotech industry

Federal cuts to scientific research have damped economic hopes for what was Maryland's growing bio-health sector. More than 5,000 jobs have been lost. Read More