The NIH’s approach to funding scientists is unique in the world, says Merad. NIH grants often allow researchers to focus on scientific problems for four or five years without the need to raise ...

Use NPR's interactive search box to create year-by-year charts of National Institutes of Health grants awarded to individual U.S. biomedical institutions and laboratories since 2000.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature ...

The NIH called the $9 billion slice of the pie “administrative overhead. ... said the NIH’s announced intention to lower its funding for indirect costs won’t hurt the core research.

NIH’s plan to cut what it pays universities and other entities for indirect costs associated with scientific research would create “extremely challenging” short- and long-term ...

Protesters wear labcoats with messages at a rally opposing the Trump administration’s funding cuts to the NIH on the U. of Washington campus in Seattle. M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle ...