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NIH budget cuts are threatening key medical research programs, shrinking training grants, and leaving young researchers ...
In a letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on Monday, NIH workers said they felt “compelled to speak up" about research ...
Bhattacharya will have to defend the $18 billion in cuts to the agency that the Trump administration has requested. This would mean a 40 percent reduction in NIH’s budget next year.
The letter is an extraordinary rebuke of the Trump administration’s actions against the NIH, which include: terminating hundreds of grants funding scientific and biomedical research; firing more than ...
Nevertheless, respectful dissent in science is productive. We all want the NIH to succeed.” The NIH’s nearly $48 billion budget makes it the world’s largest public funder of scientific research.
The White House is pushing back against National Institutes of Health employees who've sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter complaining about policies they say undermine the NIH mission ...
In a letter to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, the employees lay out a series of concerns. They allege that they continue to face pressure “to implement harmful measures” and that the ...
But sudden cuts in personnel and money have shifted her work from improving cancer care research to what she sees as minimizing its destruction. "So much of it is gone -- my work," she said.
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” ...