Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. universities in 2025 for total NIH grant support, historically the leading source of ...

Physicians Committee experts expressed support for two recent actions the agency has taken toward implementing the human-based initiative launched in 2025 and made recommendations for building on this ...

Earlier this month, a Trump administration plan to cut the National Institutes of Health budget by more than 40% was leaked to the press. The preliminary budget sent shockwaves through the nation's ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget for 2026 slashes funds for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $17.97 billion. The 2026 blueprint was shared Friday (PDF) and allows the NIH to ...

Critics argue that NIH directors should have term limits. Others say leadership continuity matters. Who's right?

Debra Houry, M.D., a former chief medical officer at the CDC who departed in August, told the NYT that while the CDC and the NIH do have programs they work on together, the agencies "have a ...

The Triangle's research sector has been scrambling amid cuts to funding for the National Institutes of Health.

On March 6, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within ...

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature ...

President Donald Trump has tasked several Cabinet members and other officials with multiple roles in his second ...

On health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s first day as the head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of 4 of the 27 institutes and centres that make up the agency — including the ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who directs the National Institute of Health, is taking over as acting director of the Centers for ...