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NIH budget cuts threaten the future of biomedical research — and the young scientists behind it
NIH budget cuts are threatening key medical research programs, shrinking training grants, and leaving young researchers ...
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Trump administration’s NIH funding cuts threaten research on sickle cell disease
So far in 2025, the Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in NIH grants. That includes a study on sickle cell ...
NIH to Cap Publishing Fees for Publicly Funded Research
By Stephanie Brown HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, July 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The National Institutes of Health announced ...
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UMass Chan Medical School faces shortfall of tens of millions of dollars in NIH funding
The medical school's chancellor, Dr. Michael Collins, said nearly $42 million in grants expected by the institution's ...
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NIH Plans to Cap Publisher Fees, Dilute ‘Scientific Elite’
Director of the National Institutes of Health says that capping research journals’ open-access fees will help rein in the $19 ...
US NIH to cap publisher fees for federally funded research by 2026
The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it plans to implement a policy that caps how much publishers can ...
NIH Cuts to University Research Funding: What to Know
The National Institutes of Health announced major reductions to indirect costs for research funding Feb. 7 in a move many experts say would cause serious harm to lifesaving medical ...
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In Landmark Shift, NIH Announces No More Exclusive Funding for Animal Experiments
In a historic move, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that it will no longer seek research ...
Sickle cell researcher fights back, calling NIH grant termination "racist" and "discriminatory"
A researcher at Duke University, speaks out after her NIH grant for sickle cell research was terminated. The $750,000 funding ...
NIH budget cuts affect research funding beyond US borders
For decades, international researchers have received a small slice of the National Institutes of Health budget. In 2024, out ...
NIH cancels research grant for disease that affects mostly Black patients, citing DEI, doctor says
Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the U.S., and 90% of patients are Black, according to NIH.
The health research Trump really cut when he joked about defunding trans mice
A line from Trump’s speech to Congress had ripple effects on health research funding for everything from HIV to asthma to ...