Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The number of basic science papers published by recipients of ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, and its grants create the foundation of basic science knowledge on which major health advances ...

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature ...

NSF is one federal agency that funds a wide range of basic science research. Nicole Fuller/National Science Foundation, CC BY Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work ...

Bruising cuts by the administration of US President Donald Trump to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have sparked fears about the future of the agency — by far the world’s biggest funder of ...

The Trump administration's proposal to cut National Institutes of Health (NIH) indirect funds has been widely attacked, with heated claims it will annihilate biomedical scientific research in the ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced on February 7 it was immediately cutting some $4 billion a year in funding to biomedical researchers nationwide. The move would reduce the share of NIH ...

A proposed $18-billion cut to the NIH’s 2026 federal budget has frozen or terminated thousands of grants, sparking widespread alarm among researchers. Scientists warn the cuts could lead to a major ...