STAT+: NIH halts grant terminations \u2018effective immediately,\u2019 email says
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Days after a federal judge ordered the restoration of more than 1,000 biomedical research grants, the National Institutes of Health is halting further terminations of grants, an internal email shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since President Trump\u2019s inauguration in January, the nation\u2019s largest biomedical research funder has terminated an unprecedented number of research grants. The email obtained by STAT does not state the reason for the decision, but it came a week after a federal judge in Boston ruled that some of the terminations were \u201cvoid and illegal\u201d<\/a> \u2014 and just hours after the judge refused the administration\u2019s request to pause his order.<\/p>\n The email, sent Tuesday afternoon by Michelle Bulls, director of the Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration, suggests more grants were in the queue for termination. It reads: \u201cEffective immediately, please do not terminate any additional grant projects. Please unrelease all grant projects that are in the cue to be terminated. Again, do not terminate any additional grant projects.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n