A group of 16 Democratic AGs, led by Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell, filed a lawsuit alleging that the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) delays in the review and approval of grant applications and terminations of...more
In just over two months since President Donald Trump assumed office, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), now under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has undergone a profound shift in its...more
An edict issued without warning in February 2025 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), having the effect of slashing funding by the NIH across the board, has been put on a nationwide hold for now by a federal court in...more
On March 5, 2025, Judge Angel Kelley, a federal district court judge sitting in Massachusetts, granted a nationwide preliminary injunction which serves to temporarily block the Trump Administration’s attempt to cap the...more
The proposed cuts would place a 15% indirect cost rate on all new and existing grant awards received by research institutions and universities....more
SUMMARY: On February 7, 2025, the Office of the Director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a Notice (Notice No. NOT-OD-25-068) imposing a cap of 15% on the indirect cost rates that can be charged to the...more
On August 4, 2020, a bipartisan coalition of over 30 attorneys general led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry sent a letter request to United States Health and Human...more