Women and early-career researchers hit hardest by NIH grant cancellations

Shortly after the second Donald J. Trump administration took office, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled or paused thousands of previously awarded grants. Those cancellations did not affect everyone equally, according to an analysis published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.: Women lost greater proportions of their funding than did men, while men lost more money as a whole. Early-career researchers also lost hundreds of millions in grants designed to help them launch into biomedical research. “While headlines quickly reported the scale of the cuts, we realized there was very little information about who was actually being affected,” lead investigator Diego Fregolent, a computer scientist at the University of North Dakota who has studied gender differences in science funding, writes in an email to C the agency froze another 1,534 grants. At the 10 institutions with the most terminations, men