NIH Budget Cuts Controversy

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Research lost because of Trump’s NIH cuts

NIH scientists speak out over estimated $12 billion in Trump funding cuts

Dozens of scientists, researchers and other employees at the U.S. National Institutes of Health issued a rare public rebuke Monday criticizing the Trump administration for major spending cuts that “harm the health of Americans and people across the globe,

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USA TODAY · 5d

Trump cuts to NIH funding would gut American science and medicine | Opinion

Our grandparents paid taxes that support our prosperity today. It's critical that we step up for our kids and their kids.

MSNBC · 1d

Scientists warn Trump cuts to NIH funding could cost lives

Scientists are warning that the U.S. will suffer from President Trump’s decision to cut $1.8 billion in grants for the National Institutes of Health. What the Trump administration fails to acknowledge is that federally funded research is a “return on investment for the entire country,

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NIH chief sidesteps controversy while other officials court it

National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya didn't aggressively push back and defend Trump administration budget ...

Nature5d

NIH chief stands by funding cuts to ‘politicized science’ at tense hearing

Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.

‘Frankly catastrophic’: NIH chief faces Senate questions on budget cuts that threaten Mass.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, repeatedly pledged during the hour and a half hearing before the Senate ...

MedPage Today on MSN5d

Oncology Community Rallies, Rails Against 'Draconian' Budget Cuts for NIH, NCI

The oncology community has sounded the alarm over the Trump administration's 2026 budget proposal, which includes near-40% ...

Fierce Biotech6d

'Injecting politics into NIH': Senators drill Jay Bhattacharya in hearing over $18B budget cut proposal

During a Senate hearing, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., said the last few ...

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Proposed NIH funding cuts could stall research for neurodegenerative diseases

On April 10, the Department of Health and Human Services draft budget document was leaked, revealing plans to cut the NIH budget by 40%. On Cincinnati Edition, we discuss how NIH layoffs ...

STAT20d

A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut

Two scientists — Scott Delaney and Noam Ross — took it upon themselves to document the extent of NIH grant terminations ... s targeting of funding for Harvard University.

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