NIH Vigil 8-22-26

This Week’s Updates and Discussion

• Opening Remarks

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  • The Good

    • Individual states ignore Trump’s executive order on vaccines

    • mRNA vaccine may work for cancer

    • NIH ends ban on funding research in South Africa

  • The Bad

    • NIH cancels $15 million in Alzheimer’s and brain-health research

    • Researchers increasingly turn to private money as federal funding remains unstable

    • NSF Set to Award Fewest New Grants in Four Decades

  • The Ugly

    • Federal investigations into universities were under political influence

    • Inspectors General are replaced with political cronies

    • John Gaitanis named NICHD Director

• Community Sharing

• Oath of Office

• Procession