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NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...
Researchers in Democratic congressional districts stand to have $2.1 billion in NIH grants reinstated, compared to $62 ...
Michael Howell Last Wednesday the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya, NIH Chief ...
The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are drawing sharp criticism from ...
"I think a lot of folks here at NIH are experiencing just moral distress about the things we're being asked to do," Dr. Jenna ...
The National Institute of Health, begun by President Franklin Roosevelt in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1940, is now the world’s largest public source of funds for bio-medical research. 171 scientists who ...
On June 9, more than 300 staff members across the NIH’s 27 institutes sent a letter titled, “The Bethesda Declaration,” in reference to the NIH’s headquarters in Bethesda, Md., to the ...
The federal judge said the NIH violated federal law by arbitrarily canceling more than $1 billion in research grants because ...
A federal judge ruled directives from the Trump administration that led to the cancellations of research grants from the NIH were "void" and "illegal." ...
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” ...
Organizers say more than 340 staffers on the NIH's sprawling campus in Bethesda, Md., just outside Washington, D.C., sent the document to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya appealing to him to protect ...
Jenna Norton, who works at the NIH as a researcher, poses for a photograph during an interview with the Associated Press in Bethesda, Md., Friday, June 6, 2025. Credit: AP/Jose Luis Magana ...