A new policy from the NIH in the US will cut billions of dollars of funding for research organisations and hospitals outside the US, in another signal of America's retreat from the world stage.
The NIH – which is the world's biggest funder of biomedical research – issued a new policy document ...that indicates it will halt all "foreign subawards" by October. Subawards are funding that a US researcher can direct to collaborators on a project from another country, and typically amount to around $500 million each year.
In a statement, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said the move had been taken because "this structure has grown increasingly difficult to track," leading to "a breakdown in trust and potentially the security of the US biomedical research enterprise."
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