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NIH director lays out agency’s research and funding priorities in new strategy statement

US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Friday released a statement outlining a “unified strategy” ...
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Q&A: Researchers warn proposed NIH cuts could cost NC's Research Triangle over $1 billion economically

SCIMaP co-founder and University of Pennsylvania researcher Alyssa Sinclair recently spoke with WUNC higher education reporter Brianna Atkinson about the potential impact of a 40% Trump-proposed cut ...
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NIH Director Orders Review of All Current, Planned Research

NIH director Jay Bhattacharya said that among other priorities, the agency will focus on artificial intelligence and ...
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NIH Reports Phantom Limb Study Rewires Our Understanding of the Brain

August 23, 2025 – National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the following: ...
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CIO’s exit highlights NIH’s ongoing problems with IT organization

Adele Merritt is leaving NIH after only nine months and taking a job with the University of Maryland’s applied research lab.

HHS derecognizing unions representing staffers at CDC, FDA, NIH and more

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved Friday to derecognize labor union representation for staffers at ...

NIH plans heat up animal testing debate

The health agencies have not shied away from the issue or from animal rights groups. Among the first policies that the NIH ...
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Chaos After RFK Jr.'s mRNA Vaccine Decision; NIH Ending Gender Data Collection?

Tasked with filling in the gaps in communication, Gray Delany, head of the "Make America Healthy Again" agenda at HHS, tapped ...