Science & Research Policy

The Health and Human Services Department has terminated the Minority Biomedical Research Support program, which provided colleges and universities grants...

The agency has criticized academia’s “perverse” incentive structure that allows publishers to charge researchers costly fees to make their articles freely available.

The high court said the National Institutes of Health doesn’t have to restore grants it terminated, for now, which could affect similar lawsuits against other federal agencies.

Instead, those who have lost funding can take their claim to a different court. The plaintiffs’ lawyers condemned the decision as a “significant setback for public health.”

As the Trump administration upends federal research, Mizzou aims to raise more than $1 billion to build an advanced nuclear reactor to accelerate production of key ingredients for cancer treatments.

The National Institutes of Health’s director ordered employees to “conduct an individualized review of all current and planned research activities,”...

Scientists say HHS’s decision to stop investing in mRNA vaccine research is another sign of the growing politicization of research, which will stymie the country’s medical breakthroughs.

The court win by University of California researchers reduces the Trump administration’s leverage as it demands a $1 billion payment to restore other frozen grants.