The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has delayed posting calls for new grant applications for so long that large academic research programs may not have their funding renewed until next year—assuming those notices are approved at all. The slowdown comes on top of concerns that the White House is blocking NIH from spending its congressionally approved budget for the current fiscal year, which ends on 30 September.

Taken together, the biomedical research community is facing the prospect of major funding disruptions again this year, even though last year’s chaos has died down and Congress last month rejected President Donald Trump’s request to slash NIH’s $47 billion budget. “Many programs are in limbo and may be pushed back a year or two. For some that will be devastating,” says Jennifer Troyer, former director of the division of extramural operations at NIH’s genome institute, who left the agency in December 2025.

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