Owen Dyer , 2025-07-09 14:41:00
International studies that risked imminent shutdown because of cuts imposed earlier in the Trump administration may have won a reprieve after an apparent change in policy at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). The agency has also lifted a block on funds backing research in South Africa, where HIV and AIDS researchers had been facing a catastrophic loss of support.
The reversal affects studies with human participants whose grant was a “subaward” from a larger grant made to a US institution. Historically, US scientists have been allowed to fund foreign components of their research out of their own grants. This game them access to broader populations for the study of rare diseases, to foreign databases that may hold unique information, and to regions where tropical diseases are studied more easily.
Such foreign subawards accounted for about …