As of today*, the NIH has funded 2,479 new (Type 1) R01 projects for Fiscal Year 2025. This FY expires at the end of the month, so we have four more weeks to go. For reference, NIH funded 4,612 new R01 in FY2024 and 5,038 new R01 in FY2023. We’re currently at about 54% of … … Continue reading →| DrugMonkey
While pondering the impact of a unintended potential consequence of the new NIH approach to grant review (Simplified Peer Review Framework ), I thought of another likely impact. Removing the usual consideration of the Investigator as a criterion that requires bullet point comment on strengths and weakness is pretty clearly motivated by what is seen … … Continue reading →| DrugMonkey
The NIH introduced a revised approach to the peer review of grant applications in the most recent summer review rounds. The Simplified Peer Review Framework has a number of new features, some of which may be more important than others and some which may affect the review of some kinds of proposals more than others. … … Continue reading →| DrugMonkey
Good news! ish. Although we didn’t see any reporting on any attempt to trigger the rescission via notification of Congress on 8/15, there was always the concern that NIH would follow regime preferences. So I was eager to see if any awards would be issued from 8/16 onward. Of course, given the update cycle of … … Continue reading →| DrugMonkey
Propublica has published a report on the loss of staff positions at various government agencies since January of 2025. This includes a list of percent losses at each NIH IC due to firings, layoffs,…| DrugMonkey
In my previous blogpost, I discussed why many scientists can't take seriously the lofty ideals expressed in Trump's plans for Gold Standard Science, even though the basic principles seem excellent. Given the current Republican administration's catastrophic track record in undermining US science, their demands for high standards ring hollow. It appears that demands for Gold Standard Science will be weaponised against types of science they don't like. | BishopBlog
Geoff’s Narration The GIST Whoa! This was a bit of unexpected good news. I had to read the sentence from Solve M.E. below twice to make sure I got it right. “This year’s Senate Appropriations bills include some of the strongest support for ME/CFS we’ve seen in over a […] The post Surprise! The Senate Bill Includes “Some of the Strongest Support for ME/CFS in Years”: Plus, Taking it to the House appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are “threatening the lives” of the American people, according to the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control work on immunizations who resigned this week. “I am unable to serve in... The post Warnings escalate about Trump and RFK Jr.’s threat to public health appeared first on Baptist News Global.| Baptist News Global
The revised public access policy for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now in effect, covering NIH-funded articles accepted for publication after July 1, 2025. Since NIH is a significant source of grant funding for UC, this change is likely to affect many UC-affiliated authors. Visit OSC’s Guidance on the Revised NIH Public Access Policy page to learn how to comply with these policies and how UC’s open access agreements with publishers can help. This guidance features a summary...| Office of Scholarly Communication
Before leaving for August recess, the Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) voted to approve the Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) budget for fiscal year 2026 ... Read MoreSource| FABBS
On August 7, the White House issued an executive order (EO) claiming to improve oversight of federal grantmaking, but experts are deeply concerned that the ... Read MoreSource| FABBS
I have been a bit obsessed with my discovery that a long standing CSR convened study section went through a bad spell. From 2020-2022, NIH funded only seven new (Type 1) R01 per year that were reviewed in this study section. This was a substantial decline from the 22 and 20 grants funded in the […]| DrugMonkey
I was recently pondering the relative funding rates for amended (aka revised) NIH grant proposals, something I haven’t thought about much in years. It used to be quite a theme around here. I …| DrugMonkey
I know Doctor Editor Director Professor Berg has more sophisticated analyses going but this simple data set made sense to me once I realized how few new R01 NIAAA has issued so far (5). Since we ar…| DrugMonkey
Chatter on the socials today indicates that the NIH’s Director of the Center for Scientific Review is stepping down. [UPDATE 08/08/2025: NIH Director statement on Byrnes’ retirement.] N…| DrugMonkey
On July 18th, 2025, UChicago Medicine released a statement announcing its immediate termination of “all gender-affirming pediatric care” due to “federal actions.” Before the halt, UChicago Medicine’s Clinic for Affirmation and Reproductive Equity (Trans CARE) provided services such as “gender-affirming hormone therapy” and “puberty blocking therapy” to pediatric patients identifying as transgender or gender non-conforming. […]| The Chicago Thinker
A longitudinal study at Johns Hopkins that began in 1995 depends on the dedication of hundreds of people as well as NIH support| The Hub
On July 17, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would be indefinitely extending flexibilities for registration and results reporting for basic experimental studies with ... Read MoreSource| FABBS
At a July 7 Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-NIH meeting on reducing animal testing, officials from both agencies shared plans to reduce the use of ... Read MoreSource| FABBS
Following up on yesterday’s whinesplaining about the relative difficulty of getting a NIH grant across pertinent career eras, I had some more thoughts on generational expectations and gasligh…| DrugMonkey
There’s a parable about a coyote and a rabbit that ends with the coyote being criticized by a bystander after observing his fruitless chase. The coyote observed, “I was only running for…| DrugMonkey
Geoff’s Narrations The GIST “Getting to know the people with long COVID and be a part of their journey with this terrible condition is very special to me, and I think that’s true of many people working in this field.” Dr. Peluso Dr. Michael Peluso, MD, is an infectious […] The post “Excited Every Day”: Dr. Michael Peluso on LIINC, Long COVID and ME/CFS appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
Among the 187 US institutions described as a R1 for 2025, Howard University has been included for the first time. This is the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) to achieve this high level of research activity and this is a very welcome bit of news. For those not familiar, the Carnegie rankings are […]| Drugmonkey
Try to account for this when reading up on the constant chaos imposed by the new Administration on the NIH. What I mean by this is not that nobody knows how anything works. It is more that the vast majority of us, from Scientific Review and Program Officers at the NIH, to intramural NIH researchers, […]| Drugmonkey
Slightly quicker than I expected, the lawsuit from collective and individual Universities / University Systems has produced a national restraining order preventing the reduction of NIH grant indirect costs to 15%. The Temporary Restraining Order requested by a third set of litigants, associations of hospitals and med schools, was also granted. I have no idea […]| Drugmonkey
A judge temporarily halted the attempt of the Trump Administration to unilaterally and immediately reduce the Facilities & Administrative costs of NIH grants to 15%. The decision [PDF] applied only to the States represented by the 22 Attorneys General who brought the suit. Said AGs are all Democrats, representing [PDF]: MASSACHUSETTS…MICHIGAN, STATE OF ILLINOIS, STATE […]| Drugmonkey
The concept of “working below credential” is one I have recently picked up from physicians. The medical industry has a business-like focus and it is, I surmise, quite reasonable to talk about how much a physician gets paid per hour of work, how much other employees get paid per hour of work and how to […]| Drugmonkey
aaaaand here it comes. The first notice posted to the NIH guide in two weeks is NOT-OD-25-068 Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates. The purpose reads, in part: “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard indirect rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs […]| Drugmonkey
[Update: The Chronicle is reporting as of 2/10/2025 that F31-diversity applications have been re-instated to the study sections for review. If true, this is excellent news.] One of the primary NIH training fellowships is the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award for graduate students, aka, the F31. It is requested with individual […]| Drugmonkey
The number of basic science papers published by NIH grant recipients has been falling since 2013, when the agency’s budget was cut by 5%.| STAT
In June, we published an FAQ for authors and librarians to give some guidance on how they might respond to NIH’s accelerated implementation of its public access plan, which requires immediate avail…| Authors Alliance
On March 5, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Trump’s nominee for Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), appeared before the Senate Committee on Hea| FABBS
Meeting Agenda | Watch the Videocast The National Advisory Mental Health Council (NAMHC) met on June 17, with new National Institute of Ment| FABBS
NIH has issued NOT-OD-25-132 Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications which informs us that NIH will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications fro…| DrugMonkey
On February 23, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement by Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine Stephen Ostroff,| Citizens Against Government Waste
One in five of our faculty holds a prestigious R35 Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health.| wertheim.scripps.ufl.edu
A federally funded study exploring why Black babies in Detroit are disproportionately born prematurely has been abruptly terminated by the NIH.| Mshale
When I asked John Savage, the retired co-founder of the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, what the essential ingredient in research is, he responded with one word: “Passion.” It i…| White House Chronicle
Leaders of the UAW reacted today to Judge William Young’s ruling to reverse the cancellation of hundreds of National Institutes of Health(NIH) grants the agency had recently cut.| UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
In its first 100 days, the Trump administration terminated more than US$2 billion in federal grants, according to a public source database […]| Social Science Space
The Trump administration’s released Fiscal Year (FY2026) 26 budget request proposes dramatic cuts to key federal agencies that fund scientific research, health| FABBS
Callahan Katrak has been awarded a two-year NIH F30 training grant totaling $83,225 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research for her project titled "Exploring the Role of C. albicans Oxidative Stress Pathways in S. mutans Reactive Oxygen Species Tolerance."| Office of Research » College of Dentistry » University of Florida
Multi-principal investigators Dr. Margarete Ribeiro Dasilva and Dr. Roger B. Fillingim received a five-year $3,322,546 NIH UH3 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. The MPIs provided the following information about their award. The project, “Photobiomodulation for the Management of Temporomandibular Disorder Pain,” aims to rigorously test the efficacy of laser and LED…| Office of Research » College of Dentistry » University of Florida
Dr. José Lemos, a professor in the Department of Oral Biology, received a five-year $2,257,662 NIH R01 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Dr. Lemos and his team sheds light on the potential implications for oral health and beyond. The project, “Mechanisms of metal ion homeostasis of oral Streptococci”, aims to delve…| research.dental.ufl.edu
To its credit NASA (often with NIH) has looked at physiology factors that differentially affect female vs male astronauts.| NASA Watch
By David Tuller, DrPH October is a crowdfunding month at University of California, Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, you can make a donation to th ...| Virology Blog
Amid ongoing uncertainty in federal research funding, particularly from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the University of Chicago’s Biological| The Chicago Thinker
The STRONG study is the first of its kind to research long-term health outcomes of transgender patients in the US. The results will bolster the evidence used in developing standards of care and pub…| genderqueer.me
by Csaba Szabo, Columbia University Press, 2025 This is a rollicking good read, written in an informal style, and enlivened by cartoons, wh...| deevybee.blogspot.com
La Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) está en riesgo de perder $5.4 millones en fondos destinados a investigaciones relacionadas con la salud si se concreta la propuesta del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, de limitar hasta 15% los fondos para gastos administrativos y operacionales de las subvenciones que otorgan los Institutos Nacionales de Salud […]| Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
UPDATED: The university told The Hustler on Feb. 18 at 4:14 p.m. CST that it has not paused graduate admissions and that decisions will be made at the school-level to balance program admissions with current student needs. This contradicts a Feb. 4 address by Graduate School Dean André Christie-Mizell to the Graduate Student Council, in| The Vanderbilt Hustler - The official student newspaper of Vanderbilt University
The Stanford professor was appointed Tuesday to lead the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya has previously made controversial critiques of lockdowns and vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.| The Stanford Daily
The $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences focuses on nanotherapeutic treatments for diseases like cancer, sepsis, and autoimmune disorders.| pharmacy.ufl.edu
By David Tuller, DrPH When I was a young gay man in the 1980s (I’m 67), a common term for sexual orientation was “sexual preference.” This phrase always str ...| Virology Blog
Associate Professor Yi Guo in the UF College of Medicine’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics has started a four-year term to help the National Institutes of Health select the most promising grant applicants.| hobi.med.ufl.edu
Way back in 2015 the NIH made some major changes to the Biosketch. As detailed in this post, one of the major changes was replacing the long list of publications with a “contribution to scien…| DrugMonkey
Dr. David Morens is sworn in before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing on May 22, 2024. Photo copyright Andrew Harnik. According to subpoenaed emails released last week by a House Oversight Committee investigation, a former FOIA public liaison at the National Institute of Health advised colleagues on how to sidestep federal […]| UNREDACTED
Researchers in Charleston, South Carolina, are trying to build a DNA database of 100,000 people to better understand how genetics affects health risks. But they’re struggling to recruit enough Black participants.| KFF Health News
Cross-agency cooperation between Department of Energy laboratories and National Cancer Institute researchers helps take the guesswork out of cancer treatments. What happens when Department of Energy (DOE) researchers join forces with chemists and biologists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). They use the most advanced high-performance computers to study cancer at the molecular, cellular and […]| Exascale Computing Project