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The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling

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Since January , a rapid-fire slurry of executive orders have driven huge cuts to federal funding, hiring freezes, and thousands of layoffs across the research sector.

Graduate programs across the US began reducing the number of admitted students.

The knock-on effect is a big reduction in opportunities to gain the experience and placements needed to enter and progress in the field.

NIH training grants are in line with trends from the NSF , where awards from the Directorate for STEM Education appear to have slowed to a near-complete stop.

The instability in training-grant disbursement, coupled with the NIH ’s new policy on capping indirect costs, have not just affected trainees, but also faculty whose labs rely on graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

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90

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90

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English

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54

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