STAT+: NIH funding rates for early-career researchers plunged in 2025, new data show
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A Trump administration change to how the National Institutes of Health awards grants has reduced early-stage investigators\u2019 odds of securing funding, new data from the agency show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the 2025 fiscal year, 18.5% of early-stage researchers who applied for grants equivalent to an R01, the agency\u2019s most common type of award, were successful. That\u2019s an 11 percentage point drop compared to the 2023 fiscal year, when the success rate for such applications was 29.8%.<\/p>\n
The data were shared during a recent meeting<\/a> of the advisory council of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, one of NIH\u2019s 27 institutes and centers. NHLBI\u2019s own success rate for early-stage investigators mirrored the agency-wide trend, dropping from around 31% to 21% between the 2023 and 2025 fiscal years.<\/p>\n Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n