NIH grant review panels resume meeting after suspension

After being indefinitely suspended within the first days of the Trump administration, key Nationwide Institutes of Well being committees that approve analysis grants resumed assembly this week. It seems to be a constructive step towards restoring the circulation of billions of {dollars} in biomedical analysis funding to universities and medical faculties that for months has been considerably staunched.

Whereas the NIH employs its personal scientists, most of its roughly $48 billion annual funds goes to supporting exterior analysis geared toward bettering human well being and decreasing sickness and illness.

Up to now in 2025, the NIH has awarded $2.8 billion lower than the typical quantity of funding awarded over the identical interval for the earlier 5 years.