Trump administration proposal is seen as a way to make NIH institute and center directors political appointees.

The researchers found that 694 NIH grants were terminated across 24 of the 26 institutes and centers that administered active NIH grants between Feb. 28 and April 8, 2025.

Kennedy Jr., the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has hemorrhaged some 10,000 jobs in the past few months, including 1,200 jobs at the NIH. Trump has also dictated sweeping budget ...

This includes a $3.6 billion reduction in discretionary funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an $18 billion reduction for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a $ ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget for 2026 slashes funds for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $17.97 billion. The 2026 blueprint was shared Friday (PDF) and allows the ...

New federal conditions on funding from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, now require grant recipients to certify they do not promote certain forms of diversity, equity and inclusion ...

On April 21, the NIH announced that all grants and agreements must comply with anti-diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility policies as dictated by the Trump administration. Under the ...

The preliminary budget sent shockwaves through the nation's health agency but also, the wider scientific community that relies on the NIH to fund research. Since January, 1,300 NIH employees have ...

News of the HHS reversal contradicting Bhattacharya was first reported by STAT News. The NIH director previously said, as part of a presentation to a meeting of the agency's outside advisers about ...

Although the mission of the NIH is to improve human health through research, women have long been understudied. In 1887, when the NIH was founded, the default human clinical research participant ...