A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration’s cuts to National Institute of Health (NIH) funding for universities, medical centers, and other research ...

A Massachusetts federal judge has temporarily blocked the NIH funding cuts for universities and research institutions after Attorney General Andrea Campbell sued the Trump administration on Monday.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts. In it, the states argue that NIH is failing to meet statutory obligations and violating regulations.

The proposed funding cap would have an outsized impact in Massachusetts, the nation’s top state recipient of NIH funding awards per capita, with $550 million on the line.

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Massachusetts received 5,783 NIH grants last year worth approximately $3.46 billion, according to Campbell's office.

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The cuts would hit Massachusetts hard. According to Campbell, 219 in-state institutions received $3.5 billion in NIH funding for more than 6,000 projects in 2024.

The proposal would cut 19 percent from the massive $32.3 billion NIH budget — money that’s already so tight, less than one-fifth of applications receive funding. Nowhere is that money more ...

According to the senators, Massachusetts received around $2.5 billion in NIH grants last year, making the state the second largest recipient of NIH grants in the country.