The NIH says funding cuts would save it billions of dollars a year. D.C.-area industry and academic leaders say it would cripple R&D.
The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
From bipolar disorder to hepatitis, and from strokes to development of magnetic resonance imaging, research tied to NIH grants has changed life for millions of people over time. So why ...
Grant funding uncertainty has jeopardized the sustainability of research projects and discouraged researchers.
On his first day back in office, Mr. Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship. Under the order, the ...
The number of workers terminated by the Trump administration at the National Institutes of Health has been revised to 1,165, ...
The Trump administration's move to curtail discretionary spending for NIH research grants will help curtail out-of-control ...
The Department of Government Efficiency has terminated employment for 3,600 probationary Health and Human Services employees, ...
Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, 73, has abruptly resigned from his post as acting director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary on a mostly party-line vote Thursday.
Donald Trump has always posed as someone smarter than scientists. Does that explain why so much of his dismantling of the federal government is aimed at scientific agencies?