Democratic states sue NIH, RFK Jr. over canceled medical research grants
- A coalition of 16 states filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, claiming it unlawfully canceled National Institutes of Health grant funding for medical research critical to public health on April 4.
- The lawsuit alleges that the administration delayed NIH grant reviews and terminated hundreds of awarded grants, violating federal law and executive authority limits.
- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell stated, 'Public research institutions depend on NIH funding for groundbreaking research and job creation.'
- The coalition is requesting the court to order NIH to resume its grant review process and stop further terminations, impacting numerous studies, including those related to Alzheimer's Disease.
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Democratic AGs sue National Institutes of Health over disrupted medical research grants
The James H. Shannon Building on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by Lydia Polimeni, National Institutes of Health)Sixteen states with Democratic attorneys general sued the National Institutes of Health on Friday, claiming the agency has purposefully delayed and disrupted medical research grant awards and terminated grants that had already been issued. In an 82-page complaint that names Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. …
Maryland AG sues Trump administration over delays, cuts to NIH grant funding
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has joined a coalition of 16 other attorneys general in filing a suit against President Donald Trump’s administration over its “unlawful” cuts to grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. In a news release on Friday, Brown said the “interference with NIH grant funding” is reckless and “an attack on the very institutions that power scientific innovation and medical breakthroughs.” Billions of do…
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