{"id":7980,"date":"2025-02-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7980"},"modified":"2025-02-08T12:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T17:53:34","slug":"nih-cuts-billions-of-dollars-in-biomedical-funding-effective-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/nih-cuts-billions-of-dollars-in-biomedical-funding-effective-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, alarming academic leaders who said it would imperil their universities and medical centers and drawing swift rebukes from Democrats who predicted dire consequences for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2025\/02\/06\/science-trump-orders-dei\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">scientific research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move, <a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-25-068.html\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">announced<\/a> Friday night by the National Institutes of Health, drastically cuts NIH\u2019s funding for \u201cindirect\u201d costs related to research. These are the administrative requirements, facilities and other operations that many scientists say are essential but that some Republicans have claimed are superfluous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, alarming academic leaders who said it would imperil their universities and medical centers and drawing swift rebukes from Democrats who predicted dire consequences for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2025\/02\/06\/science-trump-orders-dei\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">scientific research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move, <a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-25-068.html\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">announced<\/a> Friday night by the National Institutes of Health, drastically cuts NIH\u2019s funding for \u201cindirect\u201d costs related to research. These are the administrative requirements, facilities and other operations that many scientists say are essential but that some Republicans have claimed are superfluous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/nih-cuts-billions-of-dollars-in-biomedical-funding-effective-immediately\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[673,1301,309,8,453,1252,51],"class_list":["post-7980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-budget-cuts","tag-kakistocracy","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-research","tag-science","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7982,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions\/7982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}