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Questions swirl as vacancies on NIH advisory boards go unfilled
Megan Molteni reports on discoveries at the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience and reproductive technologies. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach Megan on Signal at mmolteni.13. Since President Trump took office last January, only one new member has been added to the NIH advisory boards, key […]
NIH Director: DEI Grants Reinstated by Court Order Will Not Be Renewed
Throughout the year, researchers have been encouraged by legal rulings pushing back against National Institutes of Health guidelines to stop and deprioritize work they deem related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. In June, two lawsuits filed against the Trump administration in federal court in Boston led to the elimination of more than 2,000 grants and […]
Director of NIH Institute of Neurological Disorders ousted
Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will soon leave his position, STAT has learned. His departure in the coming days means that nearly half of the NIH’s 27 divisions will have interim leaders. Koroshetz sent an email to NINDS staff Friday evening, explaining that his reappointment request had been […]
Billions at stake as appeals court hears NIH arguments on indirect costs
Questions and comments from federal appeals court judges during a hearing Wednesday suggested they may be skeptical of some of the Trump administration’s central arguments in a lawsuit challenging its proposed changes to research overhead payments. The case centers on a multibillion-dollar question: Did the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s largest funder of biomedical […]
The NIH denunciator on vaccines says that “history should be told”
Megan Molteni reports the discoveries of the borders of genomic medicine, neuroscience and reproductive technology. She joined Stat in 2021 after covering health and science in Wired. You can reach Megan on the signal at Mmolteni.13. The complaints of denunciation of two former national health officials offer their accounts on targeting the science of vaccines […]
HHS ends the NIH program aimed at diversifying the biomedical workforce
The Ministry of Health and Social Services ends a national institutes of Health Grant program which supports students from marginalized backgrounds in biomedical sciences. HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has announced the elimination of the program – The minority biomedical research support program – in a document published Monday at the Federal Register. Kennedy […]
The Supreme Court allows NIH to reduce $ 783 million in research funding
Washington – The Trump administration can reduce hundreds of millions of dollars in research in its pressure to reduce federal diversity, equity and inclusion on Thursday, decided the Supreme Court on Thursday. The majority of the high court raised the order of a judge blocking the value of $ 783 million in reductions by the […]
Sarepta, Eli Lilly, SSRI, NIH, Bristol effects
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The NIH stops financing research projects with foreign employees
Megan Molteni reports the discoveries of the borders of genomic medicine, neuroscience and reproductive technology. She joined Stat in 2021 after covering health and science in Wired. You can reach Megan on the signal at Mmolteni.13. The National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday that it would no longer allow subtelassins to foreign institutions, as […]
The director of the NIH expresses the manager of the research institute in drug addiction
The director of the National Institutes of Health gave sound approval to the main researcher in drug addiction in the country, Nora Volkow, this week in her first public remarks on the crisis of overdose of drugs – a potential signal that her position as leader of the National Institute on Drug Auspire is, at […]