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 ...

The NIH is the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research. The moves have led to a lot of fear within the agency, said several sources who declined to be named because of the ...

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 ...

Last week, many scientists expressed alarm that the Trump administration had suspended most operations at NIH, which provides grants for scientific research at universities across the country.

While the National Institutes of Health employs 20,000-plus workers and spans 27 institutes and centers, the agency’s main job is to fund researchers working outside its walls. But an ...

NIH “study sections” to review new grants have been canceled. Because travel funds have been frozen, senior researchers from NIH and the Food and Drug Administration won’t be able to attend ...

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 ...

I am a member of a federal research grant review panel, as well as a scientist whose own projects have undergone this review process. My experience with the NIH has shown me that these panels come ...

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 ...

At the NIH, that meant key meetings that decide which scientific research to fund were cancelled, with no word on when they would be rescheduled. Adding to the apprehension, an NIH webpage ...

I had planned to spend my Thursday attending an all-day meeting reviewing research grant applications for the National Institutes of Health. The meeting was abruptly canceled Wednesday in a terse ...