Trump Cancels Science Reviews at NIH, World’s Largest Public Biomedical Research Funder

Trump violently invalids crucial science reviews in NIHN, in the largest public subsidized communication in the world

By Max Kozlov & Nature Magazine

The confusion and anxiety is through the US health research community this week Donald Trump 47 US. He took office as president. Its administration has abolished the revision of research scholarships, travel and scientists within the National Health Institutes (NIH), the world’s largest public subsidiary. Adding to worry: Trump Group seems to have deleted a web pages related to the grants related to the agency’s site and diversity of diversity.

Cancellation of meetings and travel on January 21 NIH’s parents, part of an interruption made in external communications made by US health and human services (HHS). The researchers talked Nature Say, short communications in the US agencies, even when new administrations have been launched, is a unprecedented strategy, the scope of the Trump Group, which will last until February 1. Without a meeting of the Advisory Committee, the NIH cannot issue research grants, 80% of the agency froys the temporary country and funded by research.

“I’ve never seen anything before,” says Carole Labonne, Evanston, Illinois’s Illinois University development of the University of Illinois Development, received agency financing for more than 20 years. The uncertainty caused by pauses will be for the “scientific community”, especially for early career researchers, Labon adds.

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Pauses “mass communications and instructions are not related to emergencies not directly related,” according to a NIH spokesman. “It’s a short prase to review the new group and set the priority process.”

NIH and HHS spokesmen did not answer the subsidy panels due to public appearances and why they couldceled the agency of the agency that will occur or constant concerns.

Threateness in the threat?

Typically, the NIH Awards research reviews have reviewed project proposals after two separate panels of independent specialists in a particular scientific field. Wednesday, reports were created Social media platforms x and Blues The subsidy panels scheduled before February 2 were canceled when they would be rescheduled again.

These panels, ‘analysis sections’ and ‘Advisory Board’, are sometimes scheduled for a year earlier and can have more than 30 participating researchers, so it will take time to reschedule and can cause the “domino effect” of cancellations. Researchers waiting for the decision to review “may be forced to seek employment, or forced to seek elsewhere, questionable or delaying funding,” says Labonne. Early career researchers are particularly in danger, “Missing Landmarks Landmarks and can be said to risk dangerous procurement, promotion and authority decisions.” He added.

Harold Vargrus, a former NIHK Director of WEILD Cornell’s Medical Cancer Researcher in New York, says when there is a new presidential administration holding communications for new policies. But the extensive opinion of the current disruption is in the face of the role of the agency. The US Congress Assigns NIH’s budget to fund research, so it added, “the will of the conference will challenge if we do not change what is happening.”

Esther Choo, Emergency Medicine Doctor at Portland Oregon University of Health and Science, He wrote on January 22 in Blues The test section assumed to take part this week was canceled. As an evaluator on subsidy proposals, he said: You read ideas for research projects that could be a “health change”. He added: “I hope we will be back soon. There are real people, real life awaits science.”

Communication disruption also includes NIH’s sibling agencies, including US centers for disease control and prevention (CDC), supporting the health of people in the United States. Currently, CDC has not published his weekly digestion in disease statistics and research Morbidity and mortality weekly reportBecause scientists and health practitioners around the world are first trusted – Digest’s 60-year history. About three reports Emerging H5N1 Avian Flu Brush They thought he had to be published this week, according to A Washington Post.

Diversity goals

Adding the uncertainty among the researchers, the Trump Administration also has removed all materials related to structural and diversity of racism. Nih has been Criticized research community over the years Because of the racial and ethnic deficiency of agency grants – the United States “guarantees” and the urgent critics become much varied. Vargrus says.

These deletions are likely to result Trump Day 1 Executive order Anyone who calls “radical and lazy government diversity programs” to end anyone who works in these roles.

The NIH website is missing information about applications for additional diversity information. It is also extinct in the management of the Office of the Office of the Agency, the Equity and the Initiative of the Intribution and the agency, a way to work in structural workplaces.

The community has efforts to diversify scientific work – “There is only a modest progress,” says Labonne. “And now it has been deleted with the stroke of a pen.”

This article reproduces with permission and has been First posted On January 23, 2025.