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.
A major federal grant program that helps researchers purchase scientific equipment has seemingly gone dark, leaving scientists unsure of whether they will be able to apply for funding. In a statement released last year, the NSF said it planned to…
Application Deadline: July 1, 2026 Amount: $200,000/year for 2 years Award: The Innovation Award is specifically designed to provide funding to extraordinary early-career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. The research supported by…
Once again, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) faces the likelihood of an annual operating budget lower in actual dollars than the previous year. In the waning days of December 2005, Congress passed the budget for the Department of Health and Human…
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…
Three researchers at the Department of Laboratory Medicine have been awarded nearly SEK 20 million from Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forskning (SSMF) 2026 for innovative projects on the role of the immune system in cancer, the brain's glial cells and the development…
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 quietly convened a University-wide committee of faculty members to develop a new vision for scientific research over the next several years, according to six people familiar with the matter. The group, known as the Science Advisory…
Who pays for medical research: NIH budgets, grant terminations, indirect-cost caps and the studies and labs the cuts stop.
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