The NIH has proven a difficult target for the White House budget director, because lawmakers have a symbiotic relationship with the agency.
The NIH has obligated just $5.8 billion of its extramural funding in FY 2026, 15% of the estimated $38 billion the agency needs to spend by Sept. 30.
The administration has also pulled or withheld grant funding from several universities in a push to realign NIH’s research portfolio with administration priorities.
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The NIH conducts its scientific research through the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) and provides significant biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program.
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NIH-funded researchers develop a non-invasive brain stimulation method called Transcranial Radio Frequency Stimulation, which could enable deep brain neuromodulation without requiring surgery.
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Fewer than half of papers published by NIH-funded researchers analyze or report their data by sex, a new study found.