He said that NIH support enabled a range of scientific advancements, including treatments for cancer and sickle cell disease.
Under President Donald Trump, the NIH has fired more than 1,000 workers.
NIH began taking steps in February to end the grants that conflict with President Donald Trump’s policy priorities.
The NIH is the world’s largest government funder of biomedical research.
“NIH is requiring all NIH awardees to review their research portfolios to identify NIH funding and other support for projects meeting the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research,” the June 18 statement said[series_posts_list][/series_posts_list
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected 13 projects that will receive money under its Autism Data Science Initiative.
The NIH is awarding more than $50 million to researchers to study autism, including possible causes of the disorder.
The interview was released the same day some NIH employees signed a declaration that called cuts to NIH grants harmful and urged Bhattacharya to restore them.
NIH said Johns Hopkins, Yale, and Harvard universities charged in excess of 60 percent for indirect costs even though they had endowments in the billions of dollars.
Francis Collins, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009 to serve as the 16th NIH director. Collins retired as head of NIH in December 2021.
So if NIH granted the university $100,000, it would likely get another $56,000 to cover indirect costs.
NIH awarded 869 research grants to the University of Michigan in 2024, according to NIH data.
According to the complaint, nearly all drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration from 2010 to 2019 involved NIH-supported research.
“NIH is the largest public funder of medical research in the world,” the lawsuit notes.
Although autism can be diagnosed at any age, NIH says it's "described as a 'developmental disorder' because symptoms generally appear in the first two years of life. "
The initiative marks the first time that NIH and CMS will link this type of data across
“NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s historic announcement that the NIH will prioritize human-based science is not only a big win for animals, but also for human health,” Catharine E.
Adding more calcium to your diet could reduce colorectal cancer risk, the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to new research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
But the NIH funds social science projects as well, especially in the area of structural racism and health equity.”
A Stanford University grant listed on the NIH website illustrated Mac Donald’s point.
The NIH said in a post on the social platform X that this would save the government $4 billion a year.
"The average indirect cost rate reported by NIH has averaged between 27% and 28% over time," the NIH stated in a notice published on Feb. 7.
Now that we have a man of integrity at the NIH, some of those funds—look, the universities are afraid to do some of this research because they think they'll lose their grants and funding. You should never be afraid of basic research.
The University of Kansas had an average indirect cost rate of 40 percent on 39 NIH research project grants awarded in 2024. Kansas State University had an average rate of 40 percent on 19 NIH research project grants.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now announced a $10 million research project to study the long-term health effects on the people living there.
"Rather," the department said, "it takes the appropriations to NIH as a given and allocates the grants made with that money so that more of the money is spent on the direct costs of the projects NIH is funding."
The Early Phase: Silent and Gradual Damage
A recent National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study provided new insights into the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, potentially paving the way for earlier detection and treatment options.
The NIH said that the study was sought by Vice President JD Vance, who had just started his freshman term as a U.S. senator from Ohio when the crash happened.
