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About a month after Donald Trump took office as the 47th US president, almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47-billion annual budget.
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Nature 638, 870-871 (2025)
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Correction 24 February 2025: An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the student newspaper at Columbia University. This has now been corrected.
Correction 24 February 2025: An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the student newspaper at Columbia University. This has now been corrected.
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