HHS Restructuring Begins with Reduction in Force – FABBS
On March 27, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a “dramatic restructuring” of the agency as required by President Trump’s executive ord| FABBS
Geoff’s Narration The GIST This is the first of a series of blogs on ongoing projects in ME/CFS, long COVID, etc. We’re back focused on the “Treating Long COVID” portion of the NIH’s RECOVER project for long COVID. Why cover RECOVER? Because with about $1.8 billion to its name, […] The post RECOVER’s 2nd Round of Long COVID Clinical Trials Shows Progress… and Limitations appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
NIH-led research on structural racism was published Friday, even as the Trump administration has cancelled and discredited such work.| STAT
On March 27, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a “dramatic restructuring” of the agency as required by President Trump’s executive ord| FABBS
In Fiscal Year 2024, NIDA funded 7 new F30 (undergraduate) fellowships, 40 new F31 (graduate level) fellowships and 16 new F32 (postdoc) fellowships. So far*, for 2025 they have funded 8 new F30s, 41 new F31s and 9 new F32s. A similar number of pre-docs, but about half the number of postdoctoral fellows are supported. […]| DrugMonkey
The primary input to deciding on the merit of proposals submitted to the NIH for potential funding, as most of my remaining blog audience well knows, is the outcome of the initial peer-review proce…| DrugMonkey
The irony with urgently questioning how to tell whether something is an AI or a person is the fact that we’re struggling just as much to distinguish humans from… well, other humans. This is, in fact, not a new problem at all. After writing about the AI vs Human issue in a previous post, I’m Continue Reading The post What AI Agents Can Teach Us About Fraud in Consumer Identity appeared first on Spherical Cow Consulting.| Spherical Cow Consulting
Hopkins researcher Jean Fan and her team create open source tools that help bridge the gap between academic discoveries and lifesaving treatments. Cuts to federal funding threaten to break this critical research and development pipeline.| The Hub
Critics say Kyle Walsh is unqualified to head an institute that is focused on environmental chemicals and disease.| Articles – Truthout
The privatization of medical research can’t replace what the NIH has provided.| STAT
Community bonds and NIH funding have helped scientists at a Johns Hopkins research field center in Hagerstown, Maryland, collect some of the world's best population-based data on cardiovascular disease risk| The Hub
Lord, the gaslighting. There’s a live one commenting on the blog post about my disappointment with Mike Lauer’s accomplishments vis a vis the Ginther gap while he headed up the OER at NIH. I don’t know if this person is a current or past NIH employee or merely an apologist. I don’t even know if […]| DrugMonkey
I am sort of fascinated to see if NIH has learned any lessons from the past year of ultra chaos. As you are well aware, Dear Reader, I have been a long time complainer about the NIH ICs that choose to drag their feet on funding grants under a continuing resolution. I am particularly critical […]| DrugMonkey
Mike Lauer, prior head of the Office of Extramural Research at the NIH, has been quoted in a recent Nature news bit by Max Kozlov on the Fiscal Year 2025 grant funding picture. Kozlov writes, in part, about the way that Multi-Year Funding has decreased the number of new grant awards, thereby letting success rates […]| DrugMonkey
I had a thought about graduate school fellowships and added it to the prior past about the NSF GRFP limitations to first year graduate students. [ETA 09/29/2025: I forgot to mention something important about NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. These are not merely beneficent government handouts for some lucky nerds. These are requests, made by the […]| DrugMonkey
We’re almost updated on FY2025 funding, as the grants funded since 9/20 have hit the books and Jeremy Berg noted on BlueSky that the overall amount of money committed to grants by the NIH for FY2025 is 99.0% of the amount committed to grants in FY2024. I say almost, because we could still have awards […]| DrugMonkey
Recently obtained emails for the first time lay bare the NIH "gain-of-function" review committee's informal vetting of a controversial project in Wuhan, demonstrating the agency’s weak oversight of the potentially dangerous research it funded at the lab where some critics believe the pandemic started. The post NIH committee green-lighted Wuhan coronavirus experiments despite concerns, emails show appeared first on U.S. Right to Know.| U.S. Right to Know
The Biden Pentagon funded horrific Frankenstein-style experiments that use body parts from aborted babies, and we’re still paying for it. A new investigation by the government watchdog White Coat Waste (WCW) has revealed that the Department of War (DOW) is still funding millions in grants handed out by the Biden administration for sick experiments that […] The post EXCLUSIVE: Biden-Era Pentagon Grants Still Spending Tax Dollars On Gruesome Animal Tests With Aborted Human Fetal Tissue appe...| Loomered
More pets are being sentenced to death in painful taxpayer-funded experiments because of holdovers and other bad actors at the National Institutes of Health who are lying to the public, attacking critics, and undermining the Trump Administration’s plan to reform the agency. When Loomer Unleashed recently confronted NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya about the extensive evidence […] The post EXCLUSIVE: Bhattacharya’s NIH Paying $7 Million To Breed “Bleeding Dogs” For Deadly Experiments ap...| Loomered
Shifts in the National Institute of Health’s funding structure will take effect Monday and limit funding for the indirect costs of research.| The Stanford Daily
L’iniziativa di NIH vuole curare il sintomo o la malattia?| Open Science @Unimi
This somehow slipped my mind to promote, but the NIH is seeking a new Director for the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH). The recruitment closes 10/06/2025. I have…opinions…on …| DrugMonkey
When I finally grasped the initial salvo on the multi-year funding policy, it was buttressed by a comment in the President’s/NIH’s FY2026 budget justification/request [PDF] In FY 2026, …| DrugMonkey
Cognitive rigidity shapes daily life in Fragile X, driving anxiety and repetitive behaviors. Learn its impact on treatment and independence. The post Cognitive Rigidity: a Hallmark of Fragile X and Autism appeared first on FRAXA Research Foundation - Finding a Cure for Fragile X Syndrome.| FRAXA Research Foundation – Finding a Cure for Fragile X Syndrome
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
