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The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.
Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya ...
Some recently fired employees are being told to come back to HHS. But employees say the only partial reinstatements leave the ...
Some of the National Institutes of Health 's top brain scientists received layoff notices last month, weeks before Health and ...
New agency head also says some laid off employees may be recalled, including to help address supply shortages at labs and ...
Other research groups were also affected. Layoffs hit NIH staff at the National Cancer Institute and the Office of Research Facilities. These teams helped maintain labs and oversaw safety, CBS News ...
NIH staff walked out of a town hall after Director Dr Jay Bhattacharya suggested NIH-funded research created COVID-19.
"It is crucial that politics be kept out of the scientific grant-making process," commented Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD, a former ...
The current system of specialized institutes at the NIH has led to transformative breakthroughs in cancer therapies, heart ...
a division that had already seen major layoffs in April. "By terminating communications staff, this administration thought they would silence us," said one NIH employee, who asked to remain ...
The National Institutes of Health has laid off hundreds more staff, multiple current and laid-off employees of the health agency told CBS News, including at its cancer research institute.