Judge orders Trump admin to restore cancelled NIH fund
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A federal judge ruled Monday it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants, adding that the cuts raise serious questions about racial discrimination. U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts said the administration's process was “arbitrary and capricious” and that it did not
A federal judge ruled directives from the Trump administration that led to the cancellations of research grants from the NIH were "void" and "illegal."
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore hundreds of scientific research grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health, saying the funding cancellations were illegal and discriminatory, a lawyer in the case said.
Judge William Young expressed frustration over the government’s criteria for terminating hundreds of medical research grants.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s termination of NIH research grants constituted racial discrimination and anti-LGBTQ+ bias.
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The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
The Johns Hopkins-led and NIH funded OUtMATCH study led to the development of Xolair, a groundbreaking drug that reduces the severity of allergy symptoms for people who take it regularly, significantl
A U.S. federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's termination of NIH diversity-related research funding was illegal and discriminatory. The court ordered the restoration of over $1 billion in DEI grants,
National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya faced critical questions from both Republican and Democratic senators Tuesday as he sought to defend the Trump administration’s sweeping plans to reorganize the agency and slash budgets for medical research.
"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years," Judge William Young said. "I've never seen government racial discrimination like this."