Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
- Since January 2025, the Trump administration has discontinued over 600 NIH research grants, including projects related to topics such as LGBTQ+ health, public concerns around vaccination, and initiatives promoting inclusion and fairness.
- These terminations followed executive orders directing NIH to realign research priorities and discontinue funding for projects the administration deems unscientific or inconsistent with its policies.
- The administration justified the cuts citing NIH’s wasteful spending and promotion of ideologies contrary to public health, while critics argue the actions politicize and damage biomedical research.
- A federal court issued an injunction stopping cuts related to gender identity funding, but whistleblower records and internal memos show grant terminations continued, prompting a lawsuit led by Washington state.
- The dispute has resulted in ongoing legal challenges and discovery motions, raising concerns about compliance with court orders and the broader impacts on NIH’s mission and scientific integrity.
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To Rescue Science, Phase Out Research Grants — Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published National Association of Scholars report, Rescuing Science. It has been edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. Public funding of academic research is shaping up as a major political confrontation between universities and the Trump administration. The first […] The post To Rescue Science, Phase Out Research Grants…
News24 | US pulls funding for South African medical research
On 1 May, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is the largest public funder of biomedical research globally, published a new policy prohibiting all foreign sub-awards. As a result, billions of rands in research grants for South African clinical studies are unlikely to be renewed over the next year, GroundUp and Spotlight report.
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