Kate Stringaris, a researcher with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute—a division of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland—separates lymphocytes from a blood sample as ...

Like many government institutions, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) faces big budget cuts and a dramatic restructuring under President Donald Trump. The agency has had a hand in many of the ...

Previous plans floated by Republican members of Congress have proposed restructuring the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into 15 revised ones. The Office of Management and Budget proposal ...

The Trump administration wants to cut down the number of NIH institutes and centers from 27 to just eight, according to an HHS budget proposal first shared by MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy ...

People like my family members and me. NIH is the single largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, with an annual budget of some $47 billion, awarding over 60,000 research grants a ...

In 2023 alone, NIH awarded nearly 73% of its $48 billion budget in grants fueling jobs, lab infrastructure, and economic ripple effects. For every $1 in NIH funding, nearly $2.50 in economic ...

From these efforts, despite U.S. science previously being mostly laissez faire, the NIH budget would expand from $8 million in 1947 to more than $1 billion in 1966. If federal funding is a ...

Broader NIH budget cuts, including the WHI's defunding, have prompted resistance and legal challenges, underscoring the initiative's importance. Following the Trump Administration’s mandate to ...

Applying for an NIH grant can be a daunting process ... Mistake: Proposing an overly ambitious project that lacks feasibility within the budget and timeframe. Correction: Outline a realistic and ...