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Headline: NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds

Source: @NPR

From the article: "The National Institutes of Health has stopped considering new grant applications, delaying decisions about how to spend millions of dollars on research into ranging from heart disease and to 's and .

"The freeze occurred because the Trump administration has blocked the NIH from posting any new notices in the Federal Register, which is required before many federal meetings can be held.

"While that may seem arcane, the stoppage forced the agency to cancel meetings to review thousands of grant applications, according to two people familiar with the situation, one of whom was not authorized to speak publicly and the other who feared retribution."



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