June 03, 2026
The Department of Health and Human Services is reviewing NIH grants, Science reports.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is now reviewing all grants approved by its National Institutes of Health, and HHS staff “sometimes ask for substantive changes in the research,” Science reported, citing documents and anonymous NIH sources.
Science wrote that this extra review, which apparently started in April, applies to proposed grants and continuing ones up for renewal. The journal reported that it doesn’t seem common for HHS to actually demand changes, and it’s unaware of “any specific proposal that was not funded as a result,” but it listed a few examples of the changes requested.
