Teachers, students and researchers rallied in Boston against proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health.

The Mass. judge temporarily blocked the cuts from taking effect earlier this month in response to separate lawsuits filed by 22 states.

Massachusetts General Hospital, which hosts the largest hospital-based research program in the U.S., was the top recipient of NIH funding in Boston in 2018. A Massachusetts General Brigham spokesperson wrote in a statement to The Daily Free Press that they “haven’t seen any impact” to MGB’s care,

The medical research world got a reprieve on Friday when a federal judge extended her temporary halt to the Trump administration’s plan to slash National Institutes of Health grant funding. The decision by US District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston spares New England universities,

A federal judge is continuing to block the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding, with the judge issuing a temporary restraining order earlier this month and extending it during a hearing Friday,

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts flagship campus are anxiously awaiting a courtroom showdown in Boston on Friday that may determine whether the Trump administration can follow through on its plan to slice National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.

Matt Motta, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health, said the NIH cuts are “quite literally breaking the law.” “The way that indirect rates usually work is that they are a negotiation between the government and those who the government is paying,

BOSTON >> A U.S. judge extended an order today blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from slashing grant funding for scientific research that could devastate the budgets of thousands of universities and research institutions while she considers whether the National Institutes of Health’s new policy is unlawful.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, alongside more than 40 cities, counties and mayors, filed an amicus brief opposing the Trump administration’s cuts to National Institutes of Health funding Feb. 20.

The decision by US District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston spares New England universities, hospitals, and research institutes, at least for now, from an estimated $800 million in reductions to NIH reimbursement for indirect costs such as rent and utilities.

A federal judge is continuing to block the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding, with the judge issuing a temporary restraining order earlier this month and extending it during a hearing Friday, while deciding on a more ...

The group, including mayors from San Francisco, Baltimore, St. Louis and Cleveland, says Trump's NIH cuts would "undermine scientific progress in American cities."