Jonathan Wosen
Biotech and Life Sciences Reporter at STAT
West Coast Biotech & Life Sciences Reporter for @statnews. Formerly with @sdut. @Stanford Immunology PhD & @UCSC_SciCom alum. Tips? [email protected]
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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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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Jonathan Wosen
A federal judge on Friday ordered a permanent injunction blocking a Trump administration policy that would slash billions in research overhead payments to universities, academic medical centers, and other grant-receiving institutions. Paradoxically, the Trump administration had requested that very verdict earlier in the day, as it needs a final ruling in order to file an appeal.
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3 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Megan Molteni |Jonathan Wosen |Jason Mast
Directors of five National Institutes of Health institutes and at least two other members of senior leadership have been placed on administrative leave or offered new assignments since Monday, topping a list of hundreds of employees notified in the last 24 hours that they had lost their jobs as part of sweeping layoffs across federal health agencies.
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3 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Jonathan Wosen |O. Rose Broderick
In 2021, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, decoded brain signals from a man who hadn’t spoken in more than 15 years to generate words that flashed on a screen. This March, Medtronic, a medical device company, won regulatory approval for a first-of-its-kind therapy that delivers precise, adjustable pulses of electricity to the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease.
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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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