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New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

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Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

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The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

"One worry is a new policy requiring that NIH fund multiyear grants with a single, upfront lump sum, rather than year by year....That is going to come at the cost of funding far fewer grants—and fewer investigators..."

I'm curious what the current K and F funding curves look like. Still terrible or has there been some improvement?

Canceled grants get the spotlight at a Capitol Hill 'science fair' On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.

On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

JAMA Forum on the proposed NIH budget…

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Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life The Trump administration has terminated hundreds of federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.

Grant terminations and reductions in federal funding for science will make us sicker, less prosperous, and less secure.

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

This piece is incredibly important:

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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hans: Research as a patriotic bargain - Public Ed Works By Peter Hans President, University of North Carolina System RALEIGH (May 1, 2025) – For more than 70 years, federal funding for university research has been a patriotic bargain and a core driver of n...

Great to see this op-ed by UNC System President Peter Hans on WHY the federal government funds research through competitive grants. #HigherEd

RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH)

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Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.

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Policymakers Wrangle Over NIH Spending What will the Trump administration’s proposed changes to federal science spending mean for biomedical research?

A good article on now NIH funding work for driving biomedical research as well as some explanation about how cuts to NIH staffing and budget can impact research.

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

"Because of these freedoms, American institutions of higher learning are essential to American prosperity...The price of abridging the defining freedoms of American higher education will be paid by our students and our society."

A letter to Republican Senators from concerned federal workers at NIH.

I received this letter, sent to 11 Republican members of Congress this weekend from anonymous NIHers.

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Change to NIH grant policy related to institutions' DEI/DEIA-related programs:

Harvard sues

Harvard University is suing the Trump administration.

Here is the school’s complaint, which was just filed in federal court in Massachusetts:

Mine was fast. Took less than 2 weeks.