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  • 2 weeks ago | chronicle.com | Stephanie Lee

    In March, the National Institutes of Health terminated grants to an HIV-research network it had funded for decades, devastating the scientists who were conducting studies under its umbrella. One of those scientists, Kristi Gamarel at the University of Michigan, learned last week that the program was getting its funding back. But her study, about transgender youth of color, was not. Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.

  • 4 weeks ago | chronicle.com | Stephanie Lee

    On April 21, the National Institutes of Health notified a researcher at a teaching hospital in the Boston area that her grant was being renewed for the fourth year in a row. In most years, such confirmations are uncontroversial. But because this is not a normal year, the scientist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she does not have permission from her employer to speak to the media, dug into the fine print.

  • 1 month ago | chronicle.com | Stephanie Lee

    Not long ago, Patty Kissinger, an epidemiologist at Tulane University, was one of many scientists to lose federal funding. On March 18, she was crushed to learn that the National Institutes of Health was killing her grant — a program to treat sexually transmitted infections in Black youth — on the grounds that it was about “DEI.” Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.

  • 2 months ago | chronicle.com | Stephanie Lee

    The National Institutes of Health has made headlines for terminating grants and delaying its peer-review process. But there’s another, less visible way the agency is disrupting the work of scientists nationwide: It’s quietly removing some grant applications from review for the indefinite future. Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.

  • 2 months ago | chronicle.com | Stephanie Lee

    Going into February, Andrew P. Capaldi was confident that the National Institutes of Health would fund his lab at the University of Arizona for the 15th year in a row. Instead, the agency unexpectedly shut down its review process and threw thousands of grant applications, including his, into limbo. The cancer biologist said he’s had to stop doing his most expensive, crucial experiments, cut his lab manager’s hours, and stop paying his undergraduate students.

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