The recent news that the NIH will require universities to certify their diversity programs comply with federal civil rights law created understandable anxiety in the academic community.

“Subawards” are NIH funds that a grant recipient can give another organization to carry out a specific piece of the project. It’s an increasingly common practice for scientists to issue ...

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.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is following in the FDA’s footsteps—away from animal testing. The NIH plans to establish a new office meant to develop nonanimal methods for biomedical ...

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 ...

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 ...

None other than former NIH director Francis Collins was one of the leaders of the team that discovered the gene responsible for CF when he was a young NIH-funded investigator at the University of ...

It has been a tumultuous few months for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—a federal agency that funds billions of dollars in health-related research. From the very beginning of the second ...

It is accurate to say that a former NIH spokesperson who worked at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the NIH institute that led Safe to ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to end future funding for research projects focused on vaccine hesitancy and the Covid pandemic, as well as gender-affirming care, climate change ...

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to cut off funding for certain projects relating to climate change, greenhouse gases and fossil fuels. The agency is poised to cease financial ...

One popular X post, viewed more than 76,000 times at the time of this writing, read: "NEW: The Trump administration's NIH under Jay Bhattacharya has just closed its "brutal" beagle experimentation ...