Grant critiques at NSF and NIH nonetheless paused

A few of President Donald Trump’s government orders ban funding to range, fairness and inclusion applications or actions in addition to the promotion of so-called gender ideology. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs The Trump administration on Wednesday walked again its plan to freeze trillions in federal grants and loans, although a evaluation of 1000’s of federal applications…

Scientists fearful after Trump halts NIH grant critiques

Orders to freeze journey, conferences, communications and hiring on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being—and all different companies throughout the Division of Well being and Human Companies—has some federally funded researchers on edge simply days into President Donald Trump’s second time period. Students say they’ve acquired emails canceling key conferences that decide which analysis tasks…

NIH, researchers’ union conform to contract

The Nationwide Institutes of Well being and a union representing its postbaccalaureate, graduate pupil and postdoctoral researchers have agreed to a contract that the union says contains elevated pay, advantages and protections. However congressional approval continues to be required for the monetary positive factors to materialize. “All necessities below this settlement are topic to the…

NIH nominee may base funding on campus educational freedom

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Nationwide Institutes of Well being is contemplating one way or the other factoring campus educational freedom into how seemingly a college is to obtain analysis grants, unnamed sources instructed The Wall Road Journal. The NIH distributes giant sums of cash to establishments yearly. The NIH nominee—Dr. Jay Bhattacharya…

Trump faucets Bhattacharya to guide NIH

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Tuesday evening to be director of the Nationwide Institutes of Well being.  “Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation’s Medical Analysis, and to make necessary discoveries that can enhance Well being, and save lives,” Trump stated in a press…

What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has Mentioned Concerning the NIH

President-elect Trump’s resolution to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a divisive skeptic of vaccines and purveyor of misinformation, to guide the sprawling Division of Well being and Human Companies has raised alarm amongst teachers.  If the U.S. Senate confirms Kennedy, he’ll oversee quite a few federal businesses, together with the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies,…