{"id":22771,"date":"2025-02-25T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22771"},"modified":"2025-02-25T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T14:37:12","slug":"president-trumps-cuts-to-medical-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22771","title":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s Cuts to Medical Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" data-testid=\"onsite-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">How government cuts are slowing research.<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration stormed into office, loudly firing workers and closing diversity programs. But behind the scenes, it has also brought biomedical research to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/science\/nih-research-funding-delays.html\" title>the brink of crisis<\/a> by holding up much of the $47 billion the United States spends on the field every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The world\u2019s leading medical labs can be found in the United States, and they rely on grants from the National Institutes of Health. The agency has stopped vetting future studies on cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s, heart disease and other ailments. Trump aides have said they just need time to review spending their predecessors had promised, but it\u2019s unclear what they\u2019re looking for at the N.I.H. or when scholars can expect to start receiving money again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In today\u2019s newsletter, I\u2019ll walk you through what happened \u2014 and why it matters.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-60ffc669\">A complex machine<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Late last month, when the Trump administration froze government grants, a federal judge said it couldn\u2019t just hold back money Congress had agreed to spend. But spending money at the N.I.H., which awards more than 60,000 grants per year, isn\u2019t so simple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That\u2019s because new grants endure a tortured bureaucratic process. The agency has to notify the public of grant review meetings in The Federal Register, a government publication. Then scientists and N.I.H. officials meet to discuss the proposals. The problem is that the Trump administration banned those announcements \u201cindefinitely.\u201d So new research projects can\u2019t get approved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In effect, scientists say, the Trump administration is circumventing the court order. Health officials didn\u2019t block research outright, but by shutting down the process, they\u2019re still not spending much of the money Congress allocated to various research goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The administration has also proposed other big changes, saying that universities should bear more of the \u201cindirect costs\u201d of research: maintaining lab space, paying support staff. Trump aides say the changes would trim administrative bloat and free up more government money for research.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1336jj\">\n<div class=\"css-121kum4\">\n<div class=\"css-171quhb\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-asuuk5\">\n<div class=\"css-7axq9l\" data-testid=\"optimistic-truncator-noscript\">\n<div data-testid=\"optimistic-truncator-noscript-message\" class=\"css-6yo1no\">\n<p class=\"css-3kpklk\">We are having trouble retrieving the article content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3kpklk\">Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1dv1kvn\" id=\"optimistic-truncator-a11y\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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But behind the scenes, it has also brought biomedical research to the brink of crisis by holding up much of the $47 billion the United States spends on the field every year.The world\u2019s leading medical labs can be found in the United States, and they rely on grants from the National Institutes of Health. The agency has stopped vetting future studies on cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s, heart disease and other ailments. Trump aides have said they just need time to review spending their predecessors had promised, but it\u2019s unclear what they\u2019re looking for at the N.I.H. or when scholars can expect to start receiving money again.In today\u2019s newsletter, I\u2019ll walk you through what happened \u2014 and why it matters.A complex machineLate last month, when the Trump administration froze government grants, a federal judge said it couldn\u2019t just hold back money Congress had agreed to spend. But spending money at the N.I.H., which awards more than 60,000 grants per year, isn\u2019t so simple.That\u2019s because new grants endure a tortured bureaucratic process. The agency has to notify the public of grant review meetings in The Federal Register, a government publication. Then scientists and N.I.H. officials meet to discuss the proposals. The problem is that the Trump administration banned those announcements \u201cindefinitely.\u201d So new research projects can\u2019t get approved.In effect, scientists say, the Trump administration is circumventing the court order. Health officials didn\u2019t block research outright, but by shutting down the process, they\u2019re still not spending much of the money Congress allocated to various research goals.The administration has also proposed other big changes, saying that universities should bear more of the \u201cindirect costs\u201d of research: maintaining lab space, paying support staff. 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