NIH Vigils

08/25/2025

08/13/2025

08/08/2025

Thank you for your leadership, Representative Zoe Lofgren

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

08/08/2025

This is an important story that highlights 2 impending dangers to science:

1) Shadow docket SCOTUS ruling that will likely re-terminate grants due to being “DEI” (they aren’t tho).
2) Plan to re-terminate grants come Oct. 1 (FY 26)

And a 3rd: pocket recission Aug. 16

Call yer Congressfolks.

Researchers say that picking up where they left off is complicated — scientifically, financially, and logistically.

08/08/2025

A blatant attempt by Russell Vought to grab congressional power for the executive branch.

He wants veto power over every grant that goes out and every panel that reviews them. Peer review will be dead. Only politically aligned “research” will see the light of day.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

08/08/2025

This is important and time sensitive.

SCOTUS will soon be deciding on the shadow docket whether NIH grants will be re-terminated. If they stay Judge Young’s ruling, NIH will be further hindered from funding important science.

Stop the Stay.

The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.

07/26/2025

Your solidarity with the NASA heroes helps their fight to preserve NASA's vital missions.

07/26/2025

The Trump administration has been terminating grants across the federal government, including at NIH, disrupting research, often with flawed reasoning.

In June, a federal judge declared that some of these terminations are illegal and discriminatory. Part of the basis for the decision is that the reason provided by the administration for terminating the grants was that the award "no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities." However, this reason alone is not legally good enough, unless it is included as an explicit provision in the grant award itself.

However, with the new fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, the rules can be changed to lower the legal risk. What this means is that all of the grants that have been terminated and reinstated may be terminated again come Oct. 1, and this time it may be harder to fight.

07/20/2025

~40 signers of the Bethesda Declaration are meeting with Jay Bhattacharya on Monday, July 21.

To show they represent the nearly 32,000 signers, there’s a rally of support at 4 pm at the NIH Visitor Center (Medical Center Metro).

Join us!

Join us in rallying to support the Bethesda Declaration signers and standing up for the NIH! On June 9th, NIH workers released the Bethesda Declaration, an open letter signed by hundreds of current and former NIH employees, which dissents to current policies that are undermining the NIH mission, was...