The National Institute of Health, begun by President Franklin Roosevelt in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1940, is now the world’s largest public source of funds for bio-medical research. 171 scientists who ...

President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” ...

Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the ...

On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda Declaration, a frontal challenge to “policies that undermine ...

Jenna Norton, an employee at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, sits for a portrait in Bethesda, Maryland, June 8, 2025. Photo by Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters ...

Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission. The letter ...

NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research Scores of scientists at the agency sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda ...

WASHINGTON — In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent,” he said ...