(18 Apr 2025) After freezing all grants to Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities that President Donald Trump’s administration believes have not done enough to combat antisemitism on their campuses. The move will both block new funding and halt payments to investigators currently working on NIH projects.
In a 16 April email seen by Science, an official from NIH’s Office of Extramural Research told grants managers to halt disbursements to Harvard, Brown, Northwestern, and Cornell universities, as well as Weill-Cornell Medical School. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH’s parent agency, has also instructed NIH staff not to provide any communication to these institutions or to Columbia about whether the funds are frozen or why, according to the email.
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