Volume 406, Issue 10522
20 December 2025
WORLD REPORT Changes to how research grants are assessed and awarded are undermining the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research. Washington Correspondent Susan Jaffe reports.
So far this year, the Trump administration has fired more than 1000 scientists and grant administrators at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and cut thousands of its research grants, including clinical trials with 74 000 patients. But long-time grant recipients and former institute directors worry that changes in how grants are awarded—and who receives them—threaten the pathways for new discoveries and the many academic research centres that train future scientists. [Continued here.]
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