NIH Vigil 6-13-2026

This Week’s Updates and Discussion

  • Opening Remarks

    • The Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later

    • Scientific societies unite against Vought’s OMB grant rule

    • Senators press RFK Jr. on public health and pandemic preparedness

    • Medical societies break with RFK Jr. and turn on leaders who don’t

    • Trump officials buried a federal alcohol study; researchers published it anyway

    • NIH-funded investigators dropped in 2025, minority researchers hit hardest

    • NIH issued Schedule Policy/career notices to division directors and branch chiefs across NIH, stripping key decision-makers of civil service protections

    • Crackdown on campus protest escalates

  • Community Sharing

  • Oath of Office

  • Procession

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NIH Vigil 6-6-26