Trump administration cuts in health research reach $1.8 Billion --study

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Fri, 2025-05-09 10:12 — mike kraft

Trump administration health research cuts total $1.8 billion, analysis finds

May 8 (Reuters) - In a roughly five-week period this year, the U.S. National Institutes of Health terminated $1.81 billion in medical research funding, according to a new analysis.

Between February 28 and April 8, the NIH canceled 694 grants in response to the Trump administration's policy shifts and its efforts to shrink the federal budget, the authors of the analysis published on Thursday in JAMA found.

, opens new tabAcross 210 recipient institutions, Columbia University saw the highest number of terminated grants, at 157, according to the new report. ... Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, Emory University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, University of California San Francisco and University of Miami each had between 12 and 19 grants terminated.

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