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In March, the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services (NIH) has finished six scholarships granted to researchers at the University of Chicago, including research financing in HIV/AIDS, Covid-19, and health inequality.
Uchicago grants, which total about $ 6 million, are part of a growing list of ended research grants granted to universities, research laboratories and public health systems. The move comes at a time when the Trump administration continues to reduce government research financing throughout the country, which justifies the procedures as eliminating diversity, shares, inclusion and other “wasteful” government spending.
On January 20, the executive order was entitled “Ending Dei's Extremist and Sacred Government Programs” preferred “federal agencies to cancel the money that” provides or provides Dei, Deia, “Environmental Justice”, services or activities. “
An analysis in the New York Times found hundreds of words that were “marked” as limited or canceled from federal web sites and other government documents. Most terms are related to diversity, discrimination or inequality. According to the Times, federal workers were informed of removing words and phrases from agency materials, and in some cases “for the brand automatically for review”, that is, a grant suggestion containing words that do not contradict the priorities of the Trump administration. A separate database collected by Harvard University researchers lists the scholarships that have been completed by HHS, including words in search proposals that may have been marked.
In a statement, a spokesman for the National Health Institutes (NIH) told Maron, “The National Institutes of Health takes measures to end research funding that is not in line with the priorities of the national health institutes and HHS.
“When we start making America healthy again, it is important to determine the priorities of research that directly affects the health of Americans,” the statement said.
The National Health Institutes did not provide an explanation for the reason for ending the individual grants or how the affected grants were inconsistent with the priorities of the national health institutes and HHS to the Maron.
John Schneider, Professor of Medicine and General Health Sciences at Uchikago, is the main investigator (PI) in a study that is retroactively taught to increase the risk of Covid-19 transmission and low access to testing and vaccination between migrant workers. The Schneider team initially received $ 374,670 by the National Health Institutes in March 2024, which was canceled the remaining 99,409 dollars on March 10, 2025.
The Maron told Schneider that his study was not related to HHS because of its abolition: that his research was ostensibly non -scientific and focused on diversity.
“We looked at the proposal of the entire grant, and there was no mention of diversity throughout the entire research plan,” he said.
“It is a policy of not specifying the priorities of research programs that depend mainly on the artificial and non -scientific groups, including the goals of the scored shares, and not eventually enhance, or do not lead to scientific investigation, or do not enhance them in inquiries, or do not lead to the possibility of reinforcement, or do not lead to the possibility of investigation.
“Worse, studies of diversity, fairness and integration are often used (” Dei “to support illegal discrimination based on race and other protected properties, which harm the health of Americans. Therefore, this project has been completed.
Schneider is also PI to study looking into the relationship between the use of hemp and HIV “acquisition, testing and care” for black youth. It was initially granted $ 2,814,152, and HHS finished nearly $ 400,000 in the study.
“We are in the third year of five … This is a grant of millions of dollars,” Sneider said. “We have already spent about half of it, if we could not complete it, this is … lost money, it is lost time, it's a lost effort.”
Schneider intends to appeal the decision: “I know that there are some great people who have resumed and have succeeded, (but) I am sure that there are many who have resumed and have not succeeded.”
A coalition of public health groups, unions and individual researchers filed a lawsuit against the National Health Institutes, HHS, and the heads of the relevant agencies on April 2 seeking to restore the financing of ending research. Separately, 23 state lawyers also sued HHS and Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior to restore their states.
Since then, a federal judge has given a temporary restriction order (TRO) in the state lawsuit.
In a statement, a university spokesman told Maroun, “The University of Chicago is devoted to supporting our researchers community and the influential and specific research in the field in all academic specialties. The Provost office works to help researchers identify the sources of financing possible alternative research wherever it is possible.”
“We have patients who are actively receiving care for their use of drugs, and we had to contact them and tell them that we were unable to provide this care anymore and help find alternative resources or places to go to use them in using the transaction,” said a professor of medicine in medicine Jessica Ridjway, another with her studies.
Ridgway is a PI to study in the challenges between drug abuse (SOD), HIV between black Americans, insufficient access to health care, shame stain, and lack of association with care.
Its team aims to design and implement a strategy to increase the participation of the portal, and to conduct an experiment to assess the effectiveness of clinic visits, improve a SUD examination and black therapy who live with HIV. HHS 758,813 was canceled from the $ 1.5 million Ridgway grant.
Previously, on February 7, the National Institutes of Health put a 15 percent roof on the “indirect costs” of research, which include administrative jobs, maintenance costs, and buildings facilities, for scholarships of federal research.
After 22 of the state lawyers, they sued the National Health Institutes to prevent the maximum indirect financing, a Federal judge issued TRO on February 12 to prevent praise. Ushikago simultaneously filed a lawsuit with 12 other universities and many academic organizations, which also led to TRO.
In a letter on February 11 to the Ushikago College, which explained the decision to sign the lawsuit, the President of the University, Paul Alevasus, wrote that “the fall time (reduced indirect financing) would immediately harm the ability of faculty members, students and employees (and employees of other academic institutions and medical centers throughout the country) to participate in the field of basic health research.”
“I think we will find a way through these discounts in this funding,” said Ridjway. “I think you know that people in society and researchers who focus on people who live with HIV are particularly flexible and gather together. I think we hope to find … a painful and disappointing way now.”
Nathaniel Rodwell Simon contributed to the reports.
