The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has stopped processing new grant applications amidst a freeze on Federal Register notices imposed by the Trump administration, affecting funding decisions for crucial biomedical research. This stoppage has stalled approximately 16,000 grant applications seeking around $1.5 billion, delaying vital reviews and meetings that involve thousands of scientists and experts. The NIH hopes to lift the freeze soon to prevent further disruption; it plays a pivotal role as the world's largest public funder of biomedical research, supporting hundreds of thousands of researchers annually.
The meeting freeze has stalled about 16,000 grant applications vying for around $1.5 billion in NIH funding, according to a person familiar with the grant-making process.
'Applications will come in and basically they go into a black hole and nothing can be done with them,' said the person familiar with the NIH grant-making process.
'Today, I was meant to be serving on one of the many cancelled National Institutes of Health study sections,' Annika Barber stated, expressing her frustration over the delays.
With an annual budget of nearly $48 billion, the NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world.
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