NIH halts new grant awards to universities with frozen funds

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Embattled universities whose funding from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being has been frozen might face additional monetary pressure because the company holds off awarding new grants to a minimum of half a dozen of them, in accordance with an e mail obtained by STAT.

The choice might mark the following stage of the Trump administration’s makes an attempt to use strain to a collection of elite faculties and universities by withholding analysis {dollars}. The e-mail additionally instructs NIH employees to not talk with the colleges about whether or not or why funds are frozen. 

Some grants that had beforehand been awarded to those universities had already been paused. However the brand new e mail suggests the NIH will maintain off on awarding new grants as properly.

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