The National Institutes of Health’s indirect funding cap could halt studies and limit researchers’ ability to find cures for diseases, Dr. Elena Fuentes-Afflick of the Association of American Medical Colleges says.

Here’s a look at what the Trump administration’s decision to cut overhead funding for biomedical research means for universities across the country.

A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a temporary restraining order against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday, marking the latest successful challenge to President Donald Trump’s efforts to scale back government funding.

But the Trump administration is cutting more than $100 million in federal research funding to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. It is the vital lifeline to research into the cause and treatment of cancer,

Laboratories would literally go dark,” says a medical research insider, if Trump administration cuts to NIH funding go through. Patients will suffer from lost medical advances, he tells Scientific Ame

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, Feb. 10 joined a coalition with 21 other attorneys general in suing the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes of Health “for attempting to illegally slash grant funding to universities and research institutions across the country.