The premier health research funding agency in the US has had a tumultuous time since Donald Trump’s presidential return, and things are only going from bad to worse. When Donald Trump returned to the US presidency in January 2025, many biomedical researchers were uneasy about the antiscience turn that parts of the Republican Party had […]
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US National Institutes of Health has become a political target—how did we get here?
One of the most admired research agencies in the world, the US National Institutes of Health, now has a huge target on its back. How did an organisation supported by both Democrat and Republican politicians become so vulnerable? The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has long been the gold standard for biomedical research around […]