NIH Faces Significant Workforce Reductions Impacting Research and Development

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NIH Faces Significant Workforce Reductions Impacting Research and Development

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NIH has lost about 1200 employees, which is just over 5% of its workforce, due to recent firings.
The firings have significantly disrupted ongoing projects at NIH, leaving employees concerned about the future.
NIH's intramural research program, which constitutes about 11% of the agency's $47.4 billion budget, has been heavily impacted by the cuts.
NIH is appealing the firings of 13 to 15 tenure-track principal investigators who had recently started their labs.

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NIH Freezes New Grant Applications, Affecting $1.5 Billion in Funding

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The National Institutes of Health has stopped considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
The funding freeze has stalled about 16,000 grant applications vying for around $1.5 billion in NIH funding.
With an annual budget of nearly $48 billion, the NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world.
The NIH's funding process involves about 2,600 meetings each year with some 28,000 scientists and experts.

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Academics Rally Against NIH Employee Cuts and Funding Freeze

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On Wednesday, academics protested the termination of over 1,000 federal employees at the National Institutes of Health outside the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington.
Despite sub-freezing temperatures, hundreds of PhD students and researchers gathered in Washington Square Park to protest cuts to public research funding and the administration's crackdown on science.
The protest was part of a national day of action organized by a coalition of academic unions, titled “Defend Public Research Funding,” highlighting the urgency of the issue.

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NIH Faces Significant Workforce Reductions Impacting Research and Development

NIH Faces Significant Workforce Reductions Impacting Research and Development

NIH Freezes New Grant Applications, Affecting $1.5 Billion in Funding

Academics Rally Against NIH Employee Cuts and Funding Freeze

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