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Appears in 14 stories · Last updated Nov 3, 2026
Appropriations bill provides $48.7B, a $415M increase over FY2025
Congress preserved federal science budgets for 2026, rejecting President Trump's proposed cuts of 40% to 57%. The administration has kept pressing through agency actions. The National Science Foundation diverted $1.4 billion from its research account and awarded no new grants in economics or archaeology this year.
Updated Nov 3
Petition rejected; has not said whether it will appeal
Roughly 5,000 postdocs, graduate students and postbaccalaureate researchers work in NIH's own labs on term-limited appointments. In December 2023 they voted 97.8% to unionize, and in December 2024 they ratified a contract covering pay, leave and harassment protections. On March 2, 2026, NIH told the union it should 'never have been certified' and asked a federal labor board to remove the fellows from the bargaining unit.
Updated Nov 1
Funding standardization of organoid technology for drug development
Johns Hopkins engineers grew miniature brains from patients' skin cells and found each disorder leaves its own pattern of electrical firing. Machine learning sorted those patterns with 83% accuracy, rising to 92% after a gentle electrical pulse, in a study of just 12 patients.
Updated Oct 31
Funded the University of Michigan silver diamine fluoride trial
A liquid painted onto a cavity in seconds stopped decay in about 54% of treated baby teeth in a U.S. trial of 830 children under six. The National Institutes of Health funded the study, which the University of Michigan ran through dental offices, pediatric practices and Head Start programs in Michigan, New York and Iowa.
Updated Oct 26
Will host the new Women's Health Division by about January 17, 2027
President Trump signed an executive order on October 19 creating a Women's Health Division inside the National Institutes of Health and a White House task force on women's health. The order, published in the Federal Register on October 22 as Executive Order 14437, gives NIH 90 days, until about January 17, to establish the division.
Updated Oct 25
Sponsored the C-TRACT randomized trial
Four late-breaking trials at The VEINS 2026 conference in Las Vegas reported results for catheter-based venous disease treatments. They covered iliac vein stenting for post-thrombotic syndrome, single-session mechanical thrombectomy for deep vein thrombosis, cyanoacrylate closure for venous leg ulcers, and an interim look at a pulmonary embolism device.
Updated Oct 22
Opened the new vaccine injury clinic on its Bethesda campus
The federal government opened a dedicated clinic at the National Institutes of Health this month to study and treat people reporting health problems after vaccination. It's the centerpiece of a new agency-wide push by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to document, investigate, and respond to vaccine injuries. An internal memo obtained by NPR says NIH plans an observational study of vaccinated people and possible complications, and may examine vaccine schedules and treatments.
Updated Oct 17
As of October 2026: Funder of the award
Tufts University has received a $6.1 million federal award to continue the Dog Aging Project, a study of how genetics and environment shape aging in companion dogs. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) obligated the money on September 18, 2026, with research scheduled to start September 30.
Updated Oct 11
As of October 2026: Funder
The National Institutes of Health has obligated $8 million to the University of Wisconsin System for a neutron capture therapy research facility in Madison. The award, recorded September 17 with work starting September 18, would give the US its first accelerator-based clinical neutron-beam resource. UW-Madison had already lined up the technology: in September 2025 it agreed with TAE Life Sciences, a California biotech, to install that firm's Alphabeam neutron source.
Updated Oct 10
As of September 2026: Funder of the research program
Northwestern University neuroscientists have found that humans react faster when exhaling than when inhaling. In a sustained-attention test with 35 adults, responses during exhalation were on average 41 milliseconds quicker than during inhalation — about 1/25th of a second.
Updated Sep 29
As of September 2026: Funder of the award
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $8.3 million to Massachusetts General Hospital to run a program giving ALS patients access to an experimental drug they can't get through clinical trials. The program, called an intermediate-size expanded access protocol (EAP), begins September 1.
Updated Sep 17
As of September 2026: Funder via the 4D Nucleome program
Alzheimer's disease scrambles the three-dimensional folding of DNA inside brain cells, a study published in Science on July 23 reports. It's the first single-cell map of how the disease reshapes the genome's architecture across the brain.
Updated Sep 13
As of July 2026: Research partner for DF-003 ROSAH development
A few dozen families worldwide carry a gene mutation that slowly steals their sight and floods their bodies with inflammation. On July 13, 2026, Drug Farm announced it raised $55 million to push its candidate for that disease, ROSAH syndrome, into a Phase 3 trial.
Updated Jul 14
As of May 2026: Operating under Director Jay Bhattacharya since April 2025
Jay Bhattacharya co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020, publicly opposing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's pandemic response policies. Five years later, he now controls both the CDC and the National Institutes of Health—the two largest federal public health agencies—making him the most powerful health official in America outside the cabinet.
Updated May 29
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