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The NIH says it's focused on whole-virus vaccines. What are they?

The Trump administration said it was terminating mRNA vaccine research and shifting focus to other approaches, including a ...
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CIO’s exit highlights NIH’s ongoing problems with IT organization

Adele Merritt is leaving NIH after only nine months and taking a job with the University of Maryland’s applied research lab.

NIH director lays out agency’s research and funding priorities in new strategy statement

US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Friday released a statement outlining a “unified strategy” ...
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Layers of political oversight have ‘put sand in the gears’ of NIH grant funding

Last November, in the days following Donald Trump’s election, leaders at the National Institutes of Health began discussing ...
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NIH Reports Phantom Limb Study Rewires Our Understanding of the Brain

August 23, 2025 – National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the following: ...

NIH cancels mRNA vaccine contracts, citing lack of public trust

Director Jay Bhattacharya claims the federal government recently canceled millions of dollars’ worth of mRNA research ...
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HHS to decertify unions at CDC, FDA and NIH

HHS announced Aug. 22 it plans to decertify union representation in several agencies, which would affect thousands of agency employees, according to the American Federation of Government Employees. ...

NIH plans heat up animal testing debate

The health agencies have not shied away from the issue or from animal rights groups. Among the first policies that the NIH ...