The NIH is the largest biomedical research agency in the world, distributing more than $30 billion in grants each year. The taxpayer gets an excellent return on this investment. In purely ...

The director of NIAID is appointed by the head of the NIH, who must be approved by the Senate. Directors have broad discretion to determine what research to fund and where to award grants ...

Now the NIH is starting to determine how to allocate another $662 million of funding for long COVID research — $300 million of which is earmarked for clinical trials. These funds will be ...

WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health’s myriad divisions can start new work on mission-critical research, and continue working on ongoing studies, but cannot publicly communicate ...

Although new research projects are still prohibited, NIH staff can continue submitting papers to medical journals and can communicate with those journals about submitted work. The freeze on ...

Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) wrote to acting Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Dorothy Fink about their concerns regarding disrupted NIH research. Last week, the NIH canceled meetings essential to ...

“Dr. Tabak, did NIH fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of ... 2021 and 2022 after presenting himself in ...

Below is a summary assembled by the Research & Innovation Office (RIO). The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching ...

“Clinical trials at NIH or NIH-funded institutions are ongoing,” he wrote. “Research participants can continue to participate in clinical trials at the NIH Clinical Center and at NIH-funded ...

Then James entered an NIH research trial. Because James was unusually young to get Carcinoid syndrome, NIH researchers wanted to study how he reacted to the disease and treatments. For the next ...

The NIH is the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world, and there’s little clarity on why meetings are being canceled, and whether it’s a temporary pause or something bigger.