NIH Research cuts?

SDianeL

I saw a post on social media this week that there were cuts being made at the NIH. My husband died in August from Alzheimer's and I have been fighting cancer since 2017 so this worried me greatly. Also my daughter works for a major cancer hospital that receives funding for cancer research So I decided to look into it myself and get some facts. Here's what I found:

NIH NEW research grants have been suspended temporarily for review. The review will be quick & proper funding will resume. Old grants already approved will not be cut unless they find fraud.

There were other cuts but only for INDIRECT costs such as administrative & overhead. NO cuts for actual research have been or will be made. Just the bloated overhead. This will mean more funding for actual research.

The Neurosciences group that does Alzheimer's research had a director who was fired by the former administration in Sept 2024 after a 9 month investigation into research misconduct. The interim person was declared acting director internally but not by the administration and was never confirmed even as "acting". He was fired recently along with 10 other administrative employees of the 100 administrative employees in the NIH Neurosciences Division which oversees research grants for Alzheimer's, Dementia & other brain diseases. None of these 11 employees had anything to do with research. There will probably be a new director named shortly.

All of this info is readily available online.

So if you hear anything about this, don't worry. We have enough to worry about. Pray for a cure for this terrible disease. 🙏