‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01016-z
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01016-z
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Trump has removed the Directors of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR).
The scientific director of the National Institute on Aging appears to also have been fired, but this is not in the article.
People are worried that this will set back research, perhaps by a decade, as cell lines die or projects are denied funding.
About 700 research grants have been cut, primarally from the NIAID, the NICHD, the NIMHD and the NINR, possibly for political reasons.