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6 days ago | 
statnews.com | Anil Oza |Megan Molteni
Embattled universities whose funding from the National Institutes of Health has been frozen may face further financial strain as the agency holds off awarding new grants to at least half a dozen of them, according to an email obtained by STAT. The decision could mark the next stage of the Trump administration’s attempts to apply pressure to a suite of elite colleges and universities by withholding research dollars.
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1 week ago | 
statnews.com | Megan Molteni |Jonathan Wosen |Anil Oza
A draft Trump administration budget for the Department of Health and Human Services leaked to reporters on Wednesday proposes a massive $20 billion cut for the National Institutes of Health in 2026 — roughly a 40% reduction — and a sweeping consolidation. Previous plans floated by Republican members of Congress have proposed restructuring the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into 15 revised ones.
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1 week ago | 
autism.einnews.com | Isabella Cueto |Tara Bannow |Anil Oza |O. Rose Broderick
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the country will soon know what is causing a rise in autism rates, but there is little sign he has a team in place yet. Nearly two dozen prominent voices from mainstream autism research and in the anti-vaccine world said they have not been approached by Kennedy, and have no details about the proposed studies. On Wednesday, the health secretary appeared at a press conference alongside Walter Zahorodny, director of a New Jersey autism surveillance study.
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4 weeks ago | 
autism.einnews.com | Helen Branswell |Anil Oza |Tara Bannow |Adam Feuerstein
News that a major player in the anti-vaccine community may have been tasked by the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a study looking for a link between immunizations and autism has been met with incredulity and dropped jaws among vaccine experts and others familiar with the anti-vaccine movement.
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1 month ago | 
statnews.com | Megan Molteni |Anil Oza |Jason Mast |Matthew Herper |Lizzy Lawrence
Amid the Trump administration’s reshaping of America’s public health authorities, Eric Green, longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, has abruptly left his role, according to two NHGRI employees with knowledge of the situation and internal communications reviewed by STAT. Green, who held that role for 16 years, is the first director of one of the National Institutes of Health’s 27 institutes to leave his position in President Trump’s second term.
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1 month ago | 
statnews.com | Jonathan Wosen |Megan Molteni |Jason Mast |Angus Chen |Lev Facher |Anil Oza
With the National Institutes of Health facing deep workforce cuts and little information from agency leadership about how those cuts will be made, scientists, administrators, and other employees at the nation’s premier funder of biomedical research were left reeling, afraid and confused on Friday. “Nobody feels like their job is safe. Everyone is on edge,” said Kim Hasenkrug, an NIH scientist emeritus with knowledge of ongoing activities at Rocky Mountain Laboratories.
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1 month ago | 
statnews.com | Anil Oza
Two physicians are suing the Trump administration over the removal of two research papers from a government website, because they included the terms “LGBTQ” and “trans(gender).”The suit is being filed by two physicians at Harvard Medical School, Gordon Schiff and Celeste Royce, over the removal of two articles from the Patient Safety Network (PSNet), which is run by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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1 month ago | 
statnews.com | Anil Oza |Katherine MacPhail
As Francis Collins, longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, took to the steps below the Lincoln Memorial on Friday for a sound check before speaking at the Stand Up for Science rally, he was confronted by an agitated protester who warned, “You’re going to prison.” The incident was witnessed by a reporter from STAT, and the man afterward identified himself only as “Jeff” and said he was there to protest Collins’ oversight of NIH, and specifically the agency’s funding of...
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1 month ago | 
statnews.com | Anil Oza |Katherine MacPhail
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Days after retiring from the National Institutes of Health, the agency’s former director warned that two signature programs — an initiative to decipher how the brain works, and another to build a massive and diverse genomics database — are threatened by Trump administration actions.
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1 month ago | 
statnews.com | Anil Oza
Since Donald Trump took office in January, researchers across the U.S. have been waiting for scientific leaders to forcefully speak out against the administration’s grant freezes, research funding cuts, and targeting of diversity in their field. Frustrated that there seemed to be no large-scale movement coalescing, Colette Delawalla, a graduate student in clinical psychology, took matters into her own hands.
