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STAT+: Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are ‘void and illegal,’ federal judge rules
A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”
BOSTON — A federal judge deemed on Monday that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health are “void and illegal” in a hearing regarding two lawsuits against the Trump administration.
The decision comes after Judge William G. Young heard arguments for over two hours at the U.S. District Court in two suits filed against the administration over the termination of hundreds of research grants by the National Institutes of Health. The decision, which can be appealed, hands a temporary victory to researchers across the country, reeling from unprecedented changes at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
One suit was led by the American Public Health Association, along with several other organizations and researchers whose grants were terminated. One study estimated terminated grants amounted to $1.8 billion, but one database of terminated grants puts the figure much higher. The other was filed by a group of 16 states.
