The NIH says funding cuts would save it billions of dollars a year. D.C.-area industry and academic leaders say it would cripple R&D.

The NIH projected the cut will save it $4 billion during the current federal fiscal year, which ends September 30. That’s nearly half of the $9 billion that the NIH said it set aside for overhead ...

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

Vanderbilt is one of several research universities nationally very concerned about cuts to NIH grant funding. We went inside on drug lab with a lead researcher to see exactly what is at stake.