NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists
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Grants terminations requested by the administration of US President Donald Trump last year disproportionately affected researchers from under-represented groups, a survey suggests.Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty
The abrupt termination last year of thousands of research grants by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, didn’t affect all groups of scientists equitably. A survey suggests1 that it disproportionately hit researchers from groups that have been historically under-represented in the biomedical sciences, including women, people of colour and investigators from sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ+).
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