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The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama’s largest public employer, with over 28,000 employees, has received more than a billion dollars in NIH funding in recent years and relied heavily ...
Health NIH closes experimentation labs accused of brutally killing thousands of beagles for 40+ years Dog experimentation labs ran for more than 40 years, animal rights advocates say ...
The NIH’s controversial in-house Clinical Center on its Bethesda, Md., campus had been accused of pushing pneumonia-causing bacteria into 2,000 beagles’ lungs, among other brutal experiments.
NIH is the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research and has long enjoyed bipartisan support from U.S. lawmakers. The Trump administration has proposed cutting $18 billion, or 40% ...
NIH staff stage walkout during director’s town hall as tensions persist over research cuts, ideology By . Meg Tirrell. PUBLISHED May 26, 2025, 8:00 AM ET.
Plan to restructure NIH would stall science, not streamline it by Cory Miller, opinion contributor - 05/29/25 2:00 PM ET. by Cory Miller, opinion contributor - 05/29/25 2:00 PM ET.
Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he’s never seen such discrimination in 40 years By Associated Press. PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2025, 6:28 PM ET.
On Monday, scores of scientists at the agency sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda Declaration, challenging 'policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public ...
While a new NIH policy introduces higher financial stakes and places compliance responsibility firmly with universities, it stops short of broadly dismantling DEI efforts.