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News Articles: NIH

Growing up, Sara Blick-Nitko says she "didn't see role models" who were deaf working in science. Now she tells students—here, on stage with an American Sign Language interpreter—how a series of federal grants, known as the "Deaf Scientist Pipeline," helped her get her Ph.D. and work in a lab researching  treatments for cancer.

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  • Investigations

Deaf students had a path to science careers -- until their federal grants ended

For years, the U.S. government tried to encourage deaf people to study science. But the programs were just ended by the Trump Administration, leaving deaf students unsure about their future.

May 01, 2025
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  • Joseph Shapiro
Adelaide Tovar, a postdoctoral geneticist at the University of Michigan, prepares cell samples in a science laboratory on campus. Tovar is one of about 200 young scientists who will lose research funding because the Trump administration abruptly ended the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program. (Mike Hawkins)

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  • Health

As a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers

The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.

April 28, 2025
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  • Brett Kelman
The Department of Health and Humans Services changed course and will continue funding for the Women's Health Initiative.

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  • Health

In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study

The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

April 24, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya (right), accompanied by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (left) and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary (center), speaks during a news conference Tuesday at the Health and Human Services Department on in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

NIH autism study will pull from private medical records

The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

April 23, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
The Trump administration has directed the NIH to study the physical and mental health effects of gender transitioning. The treatments can include taking hormones such as testosterone as well as surgeries.

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  • Health

White House orders NIH to research trans 'regret' and 'detransition'

The new research will study the physical and mental health effects of gender transition. It comes on the heels of the administration cutting hundreds of research grants for LGBTQ+ health.

April 11, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Wellness Center is an Indian Health Service facility in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. This picture was taken in 2021, when the area was hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Health

Transfer to Alaska? Offer to health leaders called 'insult' to Indian Health Service

NPR obtained emails that went out last week to leaders at health agencies offering to transfer them to postings in tribal communities. Officials close to Dr. Anthony Fauci got the offer.

April 07, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
A lab manager in the molecular diagnostic lab prepares milk samples for testing at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Dec. 10, 2024, amid increased concern over a strain of the H5N1 avian flu.

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  • Science

Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a 'climate of fear' in research

Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.

April 01, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
Jerry Farinola of Atlanta uses Vivo, a virtual strength program for older adults. A local startup is using federal funding to evaluate whether the program reduces blood sugar in people with prediabetes. (Courtesy of Vivo)

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  • Business

Looming cuts to NIH funding have Atlanta startup founders on edge

Disruptions to funding streams from the National Institutes of Health aren’t just rattling university researchers. 

March 21, 2025
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  • Rebecca Grapevine
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor, is President Trump's nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health.

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  • Health

Trump's nominee to run NIH faces Senate scrutiny

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor of health policy, appears before the Senate HELP committee, which will vet his nomination to become the next director of the National Institutes of Health.

March 05, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Dr. Francis Collins, who led the National Institutes of Health for more than a decade and continued his career at the agency after he stepped aside as director in 2021, has resigned.

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  • Health

Legendary former NIH director retires from embattled agency

Dr. Francis Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency is facing cutbacks and restrictions under the Trump administration.

March 01, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Bri McNulty pictured when she was in Atlanta for training in the CDC's Public Health Associate Program. She and all other members of the competitive program in her cohort, deployed around the country, were fired by the Trump administration earlier this month.

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  • Health

Iowa has high cancer rates. Trump's cuts to CDC and NIH are already hitting the state

Iowa has the second highest incidence rate of cancer in the country, and it is already feeling Trump's cuts to the workforce and research institutions trying to solve the rural cancer problem.

February 28, 2025
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  • Yuki Noguchi
People protested funding cuts to research institutions at the University of Chicago last week.

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  • Health

NIH partially lifts freeze on funding process for medical research

Thousands of grant applications had been stalled when the Trump administration blocked the National Institutes of Health from posting notices to the Federal Register.

February 26, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
A person breathes inside the Gesundheit II, a machine that allows scientists to study the behavior of pathogens when they're exhaled. Research like this is at risk amid the Trump administration's proposed funding cuts.

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  • Health

Medical research labs brace for possible funding cuts that could disrupt their work

Researchers say the Trump administration's plan to slash payments for indirect costs will hamper new medical science. One example? A lab studying respiratory viruses faces losing half its staff.

February 24, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Funding is stalled for National Institutes of Health research grants.

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  • Health

NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

February 22, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Dr. Mehmet Oz, nominated to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in an ethics filing that he will cut ties with several companies and divest a range of stocks.

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  • Health

Ethics letters for Trump's picks to lead Medicare and NIH show they'll divest stock

Dr. Mehmet Oz, nominated to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will sell shares in Eli Lilly and UnitedHealth. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, NIH nominee, will shed stock in Walmart and Nvidia.

February 21, 2025
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  • Sydney Lupkin and
  • Rob Stein
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