Trump administration agrees to reconsider frozen and denied NIH grant submissions related to DEI

The Trump administration has reached an agreement to reevaluate research projects left in bureaucratic limbo while a lawsuit over the termination of thousands of grants from the National Institutes of Health moves through the courts. 

The decision caps off a tumultuous year for researchers who are funded by the NIH, which has terminated an unprecedented swath of grants in a campaign to shrink its portfolio of projects that it deems related to “diversity, equity and inclusion.” The lawsuit was brought by state attorneys general representing their state universities and unions representing members who had terminated projects. A federal judge previously walked back the termination of over 2,500 awards, but the deal provides a path forward for similar projects that were not fully reviewed by NIH.

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