"The first part of this past summer, I was preoccupied with preparing three different grant applications. Writing grants is a normal part of my job. Heck, sometimes it feels like it is the majority of my job as an academic scientist. So, those couple of months were not out of the ordinary; I often spend those early summer months preparing for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) summer cycle."
"They have bottlenecked NIH, so that much of the money appropriated by Congress to be spent in FY2025 will end up being unused. NIH has been slow to write new grants and slow to even fund remaining years on grants that have already been awarded. They have terminated hundreds of awarded grants on superfluous political grounds (either to attack the diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] boogeyman or to handicap universities that don't bend a knee to the administration)."
Multiple administrative and political changes have drastically reduced the number of grants funded, creating a bottleneck at the NIH and leaving appropriated FY2025 funds unused. NIH has slowed issuance of new awards and delayed funding of remaining years on existing grants, while terminating hundreds of grants on political grounds tied to DEI and compliance. NIH staff reductions have impaired basic intramural and extramural operations. Institutes have been forced to allocate multiple years of funding to single grants, further reducing the number of projects supported. These changes have diminished research into mental health, Alzheimer’s, cancer, and substance abuse and have severely demoralized scientists.
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