Embattled universities whose funding from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being has been frozen could face additional monetary pressure because the company holds off awarding new grants to not less than half a dozen of them, in keeping with an electronic mail obtained by STAT.
The choice might mark the following stage of the Trump administration’s makes an attempt to use strain to a collection of elite schools and universities by withholding analysis {dollars}. The e-mail additionally instructs NIH employees to not talk with the schools about whether or not or why funds are frozen.
Some grants that had beforehand been awarded to those universities had already been paused. However the brand new electronic mail suggests the NIH will maintain off on awarding new grants as effectively.
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