When grant programmes’ success rates are pushed down below a certain threshold, they essentially become a lottery.Credit: javier rodriguez jimenez/Shutterstock A 62% growth in applications to one of the world’s most prestigious research-grant programmes could result in an exceptionally…
Jeannette Wing, Columbia’s executive vice president for research, warned at a Monday panel that federal research grants could end “at any time, for any reason” amid a proposal from President Donald Trump’s administration to exercise tighter control over research funding.
Members of the public who tried to submit their views on a proposed change to the National Institutes of Health's grant funding system say they found themselves locked out after the system shut down ahead of schedule. The proposed change…
Washington, DC [US] October 14 (ANI): The US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has released a report urging Congress to strengthen safeguards against the alleged theft and misuse of American taxpayer-funded research by entities linked to China,…
The National Institutes of Health is weighing changes to the procedures it uses to allot scientific funding. Experts say the change—concealing scores on applications for grants—could reduce transparency around how federal money is spent on research. The proposal…
Last year, the Trump administration widely rejected funding research it disfavors. But, just before 2026 began, one of its agencies agreed in court filings to take another look at proposals it sat on or turned down. The National Institutes of Health…
Today, that same manager says, threats to science remain—particularly through Notices of Funding Opportunities, called “NOFOs,” which are public announcements posted by the NIH to solicit grant applications from scientists for specific types of research the agency wants to…
Pop the champagne? Not so fast. That was a Hail Mary, and Hail Marys usually fall incomplete. The commission fits a pattern. The splashy moves get knocked down: the 15 percent cap on NIH overhead payments to universities that courts struck…
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research Terminating or threatening to terminate grants injects an enormous amount of uncertainty into the scientific process, which relies on stable and predictable multi-year grants allowing the…
By Julia Rock-Torcivia | October 9, 2026 The NSF released a memo on Sept. 10 announcing its Office of Metascience, which will target increasing “scientific productivity and impact” per federal research dollar, tracking grant turnaround times and backing “high-potential ideas that may be too…
Who pays for biology and under what rules: federal research money, policy beyond the United States, the integrity of the literature, and the regulation of gene editing.
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