The NIH’s controversial in-house Clinical Center on its Bethesda, Md., campus had been accused of pushing pneumonia-causing bacteria into 2,000 beagles’ lungs, among other brutal experiments.

In early May 2025, claims (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration shut down a National Institutes of Health laboratory accused of killing beagles in the name of ...

The email also instructs NIH staff to not communicate with the universities about whether or why funds are frozen. Some grants that had previously been awarded to these universities had already ...

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He’s a data journalist with a background in bioinformatics and molecular ... on top of threats to freeze billions of dollars of NIH funding to specific universities as well as abrupt ...

NIH grant terminations have led to $1.81 billion in funding cuts, affecting major research institutions and exacerbating health disparities. The National Institute of Mental Health and the ...

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 ...

As STAT reported last week, the resumption is a sign that the NIH—which has so far in 2025 awarded about $2.8 billion less than usual at this point over the past five years—is beginning to restore the ...

“When I saw the MAHA movement gaining bipartisan support last year, it was music to my ears,” Hall wrote in a letter late last month to Kennedy and incoming NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

While most layoffs were done in the name of cost savings, Hall is alleging that changes to the agency “made me question whether NIH continues to be a place where I can freely conduct unbiased ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution advancing programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion. The new rule ...

In an internal NIH email shared by a journalist at Nature on Friday, Michelle Bulls, director of extramural policy at NIH, confirmed the Department of Health and Human Services’ instruction to “hold ...