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Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH.
This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined.
I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.
Sadly prescient reporting from May on mRNA vaccines (a Nobel prize winning technology) being maligned by the administration.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.
The mRNA vaccine platform has already been assessed across diverse clinical indications, many with remarkable progress: —cancer neoantigen vaccines [in patients with refractory disease (e.g. pancreatic)] —more than 15 infectious diseases —autoimmune diseases —rare disease for genome editing
The Impoundment Control Act authorizes the head of GAO to file a lawsuit if the agency finds the President illegally impounded funds (as it did here).
It has not yet done so, despite four findings of illegal impoundment this year.
Republicans are working to stop the GAO from doing so, NYT reports.
BREAKING: Watchdog government agency finds the NIH and the Trump administration have illegally withheld funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, and rips into HHS for failing to justify its slow-walking of funds.
Congress appropriated amounts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out various research objectives for fiscal year 2025. In accordance...
It's clear that grant suspensions have the same effect as terminations, but this side-by-side comparison clearly shows that NSF tried to skirt the judge's order by using a nicer-sounding word
For reference, the NSF letter for UCLA's suspensions is on the left, while the letter for Harvard's terminations is on the right.
NEW: A federal judge has demanded NSF explain in court how the UCLA grant suspensions are not in violation of her June order that restored grants to UC scientists
Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."
The Trump administration is blocking funding for a swath of public health programs run by the CDC, the latest flashpoint in a push by the White House to withhold money already approved by Congress www.wsj.com/politics/pol... w @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social
The White House budget office recently reversed a decision to freeze about $15 billion in research funding for the NIH.
UCLA's NIH grants are also impacted, its chancellor says. The university receives about $500m in NIH funds each year.
NIH grants staff I've spoken to haven't heard anything. But for institutions frozen out by the Trump admin, the agency now issues awards but limits their ability to withdraw funds.
Chancellor Frenk shared a message with the Bruin community. Dear Bruin Community: UCLA received a notice that the federal government, through its control of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the...
Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."
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“Given the alternative, the Senate’s recommendation of a $400m increase for NIH is an indication the agency still has support on Capitol Hill,” says Jennifer Zeitzer of FASEB. “A 40% cut would have been devastating, so this is a good outcome in a tough year.”
Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law.
