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Senators press HHS on withheld NIH grants, indirect cost caps and clinical trials
Summary
Senators urged Secretary Kennedy to explain a pause or reduction in NIH grant awards, concerns about an indirect-cost cap and the potential impact on clinical trials and research capacity.
Senator Tammy Baldwin and others pressed Secretary Kennedy over reports that NIH had withheld roughly $3 billion in awards and that more than 3,200 grants were not awarded compared with the same period a year earlier. "This budget request cuts, to the National Institutes of Health of $18,000,000,000," Baldwin said in her opening remarks, and later raised specific instances of grants held up at Alzheimer's research centers, cancer centers, and rare disease networks.
Secretary Kennedy said the administration…
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