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.

Over the last week, thousands of federal employees were fired or laid off as part of President Trump's cost-cutting plan.

The country’s first line of defense against public-health threats has been spared by DOGE—for now.

The National Institutes of Health, headquartered in Bethesda, has lost more than 1,000 employees in another round of federal worker firings. Similar to other federal layoffs the nation has seen in ...

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.

The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.

The U.S. will be seen as a pariah in the global community if it does not play a collaborative role in preventing the next ...

In the weeks since President Donald Trump has assumed office, more than 200,000 federal workers at a number of agencies have ...

With federal support, universities produce world-changing discoveries and the next generation of exquisitely well-trained ...

Approximately 70,000 Montgomery County residents are part of the federal workforce. Some have lost their jobs under Trump ...

Scott Curtis had a leadership role in a critical agency until being kicked “to the curb” by Trump and Musk. Only after this ...

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