A two-sentence paragraph in a new guidance document to National Institutes of Health grant managers brings a five-year surge of COVID-19 research funding to a screeching halt.
Chief grants management specialists at each of the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers have been instructed to “completely excise” grants that clash with the Trump administration’s priorities. A Tuesday NIH directive broadens the categories of research that clash with the administration’s priorities to include research on COVID-19, according to Nature magazine.
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