STAT December 16, 2025
Publicly funded research is essential. But federal resources are finite
This essay is part of a First Opinion series on the future of the National Institutes of Health and American science.
The Trump administration’s plans to restructure the National Institutes of Health and cut its annual budget by about $18 billion, along with this year’s layoffs, terminated grants, and disputes with major universities, have left many researchers concerned that the NIH — our publicly-funded biomedical research engine that has underpinned decades of lifesaving medical breakthroughs — has been, as STAT has put it, “shattered.”
While the long-term impacts of disruptions to research over the past 10 months aren’t known, we don’t believe the machinery of publicly funded American biomedical science...
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