The future of America’s biomedical prowess hangs in the balance as far-reaching funding cuts tear through the scientific community. 

In the span of just a few months, the Trump administration clawed back more than $2 billion in research grants from NIH, according to an analysis this week from Stat News. The cuts, which hit scores of colleges large and small, have accompanied signs that China’s biotechnology dominance is growing while America’s is shrinking. Just one institution in the U.S. — Harvard University — was among Nature’s top 10 research leaders in 2024, while seven were in China. 

And the NIH reductions are far from over. Today, we’re looking at the programs impacted by grant terminations and at the Trump’s administration’s proposed vision for a newly organized — and much smaller — NIH. 

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