National Institute of Health Disruptions

[Klystron]

Consider this report on 2025 disruptions at NIH in today's Washington Post. Linked as a guest article. If trouble reading, here are a few pertinent excerpts.

Headline:

NIH reels with fear, uncertainty about future of scientific research​

The Trump administration’s orders have created more turmoil and damage at the National Institutes of Health than was previously known.

Leadership:

In just six weeks, the Trump administration overturned NIH’s leadership, slowed its main mission of identifying the best new science to fund and silenced personnel at the biggest sponsor of biomedical research in the world — a nearly $48 billion enterprise that supports the work of some 300,000 external scientists.

“It’s terrible. It’s awful. People are afraid to open their emails,” one NIH senior scientist said.

Research Grants :

According to multiple people familiar with the internal debate, NIH staff had become fearful of issuing grants, worried that they would be held accountable for either violating executive orders or the law.

“The whole thing could just disappear,” said Phil Murphy, senior investigator and chief of the laboratory of molecular immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). “The biomedical research enterprise in the United States depends largely on NIH dollars. You take the dollars away, the labs go away, and you lose the next generation of scientists.”

https://wapo.st/4h8aiZx

FTR: OP has not received an NIH grant but has supported hundreds of scientists at research centers, including helping formulate research grant requests.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

It's sad. The gov was responsible for important research that didn't have huge financial gains.

Fired NIH workers fear bleak job prospects in the private sector because their research is too specific to be retrofitted: 'No VC is going to fund that'

Employees told Fortune finding a job would require them to apply for positions for which they were overqualified or not closely aligned with their years of research.

fortune.com

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

This one hits hard personally as I have a family member with glioblastoma

The Government Just Cut Dedicated Funding for Glioblastoma — Glioblastoma Research Organization

Last week, the Department of Defense released its annual update on the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), a powerful but often overlooked funding source for cancer research, including glioblastoma (GBM). The news? Devastating. Due to a continuing resolution in Congress, the

www.gbmresearch.org