US EditionChanges to Federal Grants Have Affected Minnesota Health Researchers
Despite lawsuits reinstating 860 NIH grants, eight Minnesota grants remain canceled, disrupting research and funding for local institutions and slowing progress.
- In March, a National Institutes of Health grant for Michael Bronstein, assistant professor, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, was terminated, but a lawsuit weeks later forced many reinstatements, though the federal government refused to disperse the second year of funding.
- Policy changes since President Donald Trump's second term began include staff reviews at NIH, NSF, DOD, and DOE, with officials pushing a 15% cap on indirect costs this year.
- There was a high watermark of... 1,799 grants terminated, said Eleanor Dehoney, senior vice president of policy and advocacy, Research!America; since then, 860 grants have been reinstated and NIH awarded 12,588 new grants this year.
- Michael Bronstein reports his team cannot pay graduate students, and Dehoney said, `Nothing good or bad with doing it that way` as work slows and timelines slip.
- As of Dec. 12, eight Minnesota NIH grants remain canceled, including at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, with a judge-blocked policy under appeal, leaving funding rules uncertain.
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Changes to federal grants have affected Minnesota health researchers
ROCHESTER — By all appearances, sociologist Michael Bronstein's research grant is active. In March, the National Institutes of Health grant — which sponsors his team's research on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among people with severe mental illness — was terminated, along with hundreds of others. Weeks later, a lawsuit forced the federal government to reinstate many of those grants, including Bronstein's. Though it no longer appears on the governm…
2025 in Review: This year's NIH changes affected local researchers
ROCHESTER — By all appearances, sociologist Michael Bronstein's research grant is active. In March, the National Institutes of Health grant — which sponsors his team's research on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among people with severe mental illness — was terminated, along with hundreds of others. Weeks later, a lawsuit forced the federal government to reinstate many of those grants, including Bronstein's. Though it no longer appears on the governm…
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