More than 300 scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) signed an open letter on Monday morning to director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, criticizing the Trump administration over recent moves.

Sixty-six current and 23 recently-terminated staff at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), along with 253 anonymous colleagues, sent an open letter to Director Jay Bhattacharya today ...

At the meeting, NIH staffers criticized overzealous word searches being applied to grant reviews by the Department of ...

The letter claims that since January 20, 2025, NIH has terminated 2,100 research grants totaling around $9.5 billion and $2.6 billion in contracts, and argues that those “terminations contradict ...

With that in place, he said in a statement in April, “NIH scientists can be certain they are afforded the ability to engage in open, academic discourse as part of their official duties and in ...

On June 9, nearly 100 NIH scientists signed a public letter — dubbed the Bethesda Declaration — directly challenging Bhattacharya’s leadership and recent NIH policy changes.

Over 300 researchers from the National Institutes of Health have published a letter rebuking its director and the Trump administration for deep, politically motivated cuts to research funding, as ...

In their letter, NIH staff members said the agency had terminated 2,100 research grants totaling about $9.5 billion and an additional $2.6 billion in contracts since President Donald Trump took ...

Jenna Norton ,who works as a researcher at the NIH, poses for a photograph during an interview with the Associated Press in Bethesda, Md., Friday, June 6, 2025. Credit: AP/Jose Luis Magana ...