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E. Shyam P. Reddy: NIH will Reinstate 900 Grants in Response to Court Order

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Jun 29, 2025, 14:56

E. Shyam P. Reddy: NIH will Reinstate 900 Grants in Response to Court Order

E. Shyam P. Reddy, Professor and Director of the Cancer Biology Program at Morehouse School of Medicine, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order. Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by President Donald Trump’s administration.

The reinstatements are an even more dramatic response to the ruling than the pause on new terminations that NIH grants staff learned about on Tuesday.

The grant restorations, announced in an internal memo, follow the 16 June decision from Judge William Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on two lawsuits filed by 16 state attorneys general and several researchers and scientific groups challenging the terminations.

Since January, NIH has canceled as many as 2300 grants in response to Trump’s executive orders banning federal funds for topics such as diversity, equity, and inclusion; racial health disparities; and transgender health.

“I am certainly reassured to see grant restorations occurring,” says biochemist Jeremy Berg, former director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and former editor-in-chief of Science.”

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