With Trump coming into power, the NIH is in the crosshairs

Dr. Benjamin Jin, a biologist works on immunotherapy for HPV+ cancers, in a lab at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. in 2018. The NIH has a $48 billion budget to fund biomedical research.

The National Institutes of Health, the crown jewel of biomedical research in the U.S., could face big changes under the new Trump administration, some fueled by pandemic-era criticisms of the agency.

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