The White House Office of Management and Budget blocked the National Institutes from issuing grant funding and contracts but then reversed course after uproar ensued.

NIH will be able to fund fewer research grants in fiscal 2026, even if Congress provides more funding, due to administration budget maneuvers.

Media outlets reported that all NIH research grants were briefly paused, then unpaused. OMB director Russell Vought has been outspoken about his plans to reduce government spending, including on the ...

The afternoon email had directed NIH officials to immediately halt the issuing of research grants, research and development contracts, and training awards during a “pause” of unspecified duration.

And it has, over months, pushed the NIH to cancel grants that the agency had already awarded, at a scale NIH officials told me they’ve never experienced— thousands of grants canceled not, as ...

NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half.

After a judge ordered the NIH to reinstate biomedical research grants in June, scientists had a brief moment of celebration. But researchers say the process of restoring their funding and ...

A congressional watchdog determined Tuesday that the Trump administration broke the law when it directed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel hundreds of research grants earlier this y… ...

President Donald Trump’s freeze on $8 billion of congressionally appropriated funding to the National Institutes of Health was illegal, the Government Accountability Office reported Tuesday.

Trump illegally froze 1,800 NIH medical research grants, Congress’ watchdog says The Government Accountability Office said the cancellation of $8 billion in NIH grants was a violation of the ...

For example, NIH capped reimbursement for indirect research expenses such as lab maintenance and operations at 15% for current and new grants.

As the future of rare disease research at Cincinnati Children's is threatened, parents of 13-year-old Charlie Evans plead for its reinstatement.