The National Institutes of Health plans to centralize its peer review operations for the grants and research contracts it awards, reportedly eliminating certain jobs at the agency. Why it matters: The ...

“Nobody feels like their job is safe. Everyone is on edge,” said Kim Hasenkrug, an NIH scientist emeritus with knowledge of ongoing activities at Rocky Mountain Laboratories. “They’re ...

Bhattacharya now heads to the full Senate for an impending confirmation vote that will be the last hurdle before he becomes the next director of the NIH. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., expressed ...

At least 24 termination letters have been sent out, according to one official. Several active research grants related to studies involving LGBTQ+ issues, gender identity and diversity, equity and ...

In 1972, testicular cancer was a leading killer of young men — almost uniformly fatal. Today, it has a 90 percent survival rate. The drug responsible for this miraculous reversal, Cisplatin ...

Researchers worldwide who are funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) — the world’s biggest funder of biomedical research — are facing uncertainty about the future of their ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI), according to NIH sources and internal NIH ...

The American public has consistently supported this life-saving cancer research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the main federal agency for medical research, provides about $8 billion in ...

President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said in his confirmation hearing last week that he was “absolutely committed” to finding alternatives ...

Bruising cuts by the administration of US President Donald Trump to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have sparked fears about the future of the agency — by far the world’s biggest ...

AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to ...

Harvard Prof. Maya Sen proposes that universities “commit to addressing administrative bloat and shoring up research integrity” to tame indirect costs (“A Compromise on University Funding ...