Trump’s Freeze at NIH Alarms Scientists

“While the National Institutes of Health employs 20,000-plus workers and spans 27 institutes and centers, the agency’s main job is to fund researchers working outside its walls,” Stat reports.

“But an unprecedented disruption of grant review panel meetings is provoking panic across the world of academic science that this key piece of the agency’s mission will be upended.”

Said one doctor: “Everything appears to have just ground to a halt.”