A leaked memo for grant management staff of the US government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH), dated March 25 and of which Bhekisisa has seen a copy, instructs officers to hold “all [research] ...

Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University health economist who gained notoriety for his criticism of the NIH’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, secured the confirmation with a 53-to-47 party-line vote ...

Jau Bhattacharya, who is an Indian-origin professor at Stanford School of Medicine, is confirmed as the Director of NIH.

On Jay Bhattacharya's first day as NIH director, the agency directed staff to identify contracts related to “fighting misinformation or disinformation” ...

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is concerned about the Trump administration’s recent cuts to research grants through the National ...

Francis Collins abruptly retired from NIH, where he had been conducting genetics research, amid massive cuts by the Trump ...

The Senate yesterday confirmed Marty Makary as the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Jay Bhattacharya as the new director of the National Institutes of Health. Makary was ...

In an instant, the nation’s largest funder of biomedical research had eviscerated her budget. The emails informed her that ...

Studies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated ...

As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, the path to a ...

The bulk of the terminated grants have to do with vaccine hesitancy, HIV, Black or Latino communities and/or sex, gender and ...

To systematically end active awards is a departure for NIH, which has terminated grants to Duke, UNC and RTI International.