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How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts

Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
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  1. Max Kozlov
  2. Chris Ryan
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The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis of the unprecedented cuts.

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Nature 640, 863-865 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01099-8

Max Kozlov reported and wrote this story and analysed some data; Chris Ryan analysed data and created the charts for this piece.

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  • Correction 11 April 2025: An earlier version of this story had the wrong colours for Arizona and New Mexico in the ‘Grants cut by state’ graphic. Arizona voted for Trump in 2024, and New Mexico for Harris.

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  1. How Nature analysed NIH’s grant terminations

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