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The National Institutes of Health will no longer recognize a union of early-career researchers who work in its labs, NOTUS reported. NIH fellows—who typically receive term-limited…

Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was named the acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…

Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages,…

Membership at many of the high-level advisory coucils for the US National Institutes of Health is dwindling ― a decline that could trigger a freeze in…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will no longer fund research that uses human fetal tissue obtained from “elective” abortions, the world’s biggest public funder of…

January 22, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmNIH ends fetal tissue researchThe National Institutes of Health’s move to end support for research using fetal…

The House and Senate appropriations committees have jointly proposed legislation that would generally maintain the Education Department’s funding levels, plus increase the National Institutes of Health’s…

The National Institutes of Health is deciding, per court agreements, whether to award or deny droves of grant applications that the agency previously either rejected or…

December 30, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmNIH Agrees to Evaluate Stalled Scientific GrantsHealth officials have agreed to assess pending medical research grants after…

The NIH and NSF, which both fund research, gave staff new grant review instructions this month. sorbetto | DigitalVision Vectors Two major federal research funding agencies…