But even after she meets that criteria, an abrupt reduction in the NIH workforce means her treatment will take much longer to develop than initially expected. She’s worried that that extra time ...

None other than former NIH director Francis Collins was one of the leaders of the team that discovered the gene responsible for CF when he was a young NIH-funded investigator at the University of ...

The email directs NIH employees not to communicate with universities about whether or why their funds have been frozen. The list of affected schools includes Columbia, Cornell, Brown, and ...

Although the mission of the NIH is to improve human health through research, women have long been understudied. In 1887, when the NIH was founded, the default human clinical research participant ...

The preliminary budget sent shockwaves through the nation's health agency but also, the wider scientific community that relies on the NIH to fund research. Since January, 1,300 NIH employees have ...

That figure is much higher than some separate estimates that previously suggested targeted grant terminations have affected more than $1.8 billion in NIH funding. The new report, which describes ...

“The idea of the platform is that the existing data resources are often fragmented and difficult to obtain,” Bhattacharya told a panel of NIH advisers in his presentation on Tuesday.

To achieve its goal, the NIH plans to establish a new office for overseeing innovative research and coordinating agency-wide efforts to “develop, validate and scale” the use of “non-animal ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is halting new grant and contract payments to several universities, a move the agency has been instructed not to disclose to affected schools, according to ...

In an email from the NIH Executive Secretariat obtained by STAT, the agency said it was naming Courtney Aklin to run the National Institute of Nursing Research; Alison Cernich to run the National ...

News of the HHS reversal contradicting Bhattacharya was first reported by STAT News. The NIH director previously said, as part of a presentation to a meeting of the agency's outside advisers about ...