Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.

A June 2026 Nature report revealed that mandatory reviews by top officials, checking for a list of 235 disfavored terms, have left hundreds of meritorious NIH applications in administrative limbo (Koz...

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Biomedical advances such as lenacapavir depend on years of publicly funded basic research

"The test will be a simple one: Are you sufficiently loyal to the president? If the answer is no, it will result in the

These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards.

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2025 Brain Prize winners, Michelle Monje of Stanford Medicine and Frank Winkler of Heidelberg University Hospital, made clear that animal research remains essential to their work.  In an FENS…