The Wall Street Journal reported earlier Tuesday that an initial pause in NIH funding came in the form of a footnote from the Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought’s office.

At Duke, NIH grant and contract award notices plummeted, dropping from 166 in January and February of 2024 to 64 so far in 2025, according to the university.

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the funding pause to journalists. US Senator Patty ...

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 ...

NIH budget cuts are threatening key medical research programs, shrinking training grants, and leaving young researchers facing career uncertainty.

Over the past several decades, concerns about costs and producing short-term results have narrowed the NIH’s impact.

The NIH—which sent about $26 billion to more than 500 institutions or research centers affiliated with colleges and universities in 2024— mostly targeted projects related to vaccines and the ...

The NIH change would set a flat cap on the reimbursement rate at 15% — meaning for every dollar in research funding, an institution could get an additional 15 cents to cover “indirect costs.” ...

NIH staff members have been instructed to identify and potentially cancel grants for projects studying transgender populations, gender identity, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the ...

It’s been very hard to get violence research funded. I have been told by the pre-Trump NIH that a project that I submitted was less significant because it had a gender-based violence component.