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Women and early-career investigators were disproportionately impacted by the thousands of National Institutes of Health grant terminations in 2025, according to a new analysis. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, the study determined that women\u2019s projects were \u201csmaller on average, had a larger share of unspent funds at cancelation, and were more concentrated in training and transition awards.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Gender differences were especially pronounced among early-career investigators, the study found, and women in general had a larger share of active resources at cancellation (57.9\u00a0percent versus 48.2\u00a0percent for men). Consequently, \u201cwomen lost a greater portion of unrealized scientific output,\u201d wrote the study\u2019s authors, including lead Diego F.\u00a0M. Oliveira, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of North Dakota. <\/p>\n While available data can\u2019t determine downstream causal effects, the authors wrote, \u201cNIH economic multipliers suggest a potentially large unrealized loss to the U.S. research enterprise.\u201d <\/p>\n A separate recent survey of 367 NIH-funded scientists in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe<\/em> and MassINC Polling Group found that 69\u00a0percent had counseled their students against pursuing jobs in academia in light of current conditions. Some 59\u00a0percent had encouraged students to consider opportunities outside the U.S. Most also reported delayed hiring processes and layoffs of postdoctoral researchers or staff at their institution due to NIH cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Women and early-career investigators were disproportionately impacted by the thousands of National Institutes of Health grant terminations in 2025, according to a new analysis. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study determined that women\u2019s projects were \u201csmaller on average, had a larger share of unspent funds at cancelation, and were more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[562,4241,4639,23993,868,5634,1755],"class_list":{"0":"post-47447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-cuts","9":"tag-flag","10":"tag-grant","11":"tag-inequities","12":"tag-pipeline","13":"tag-studies","14":"tag-threats"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}