US Restores Some Medical Research Grants

A senior US health official admitted President Donald Trump’s administration had gone too far in slashing biomedical research grants worth billions of dollars, and said efforts were underway to restore some of the funding. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health says he had created an appeals process for scientists and laboratories whose research was impacted, and that the NIH had already “reversed many” of the cuts. He says he didn’t take this job to terminate grants but to make sure the research advances the health needs of the American people.

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