No one was giving the public a clear account of the AHRQ grant cancellations. So we built one. Research Interrupted documents every verified cancellation: the grants, the dollars, the states, and the patients the research was meant to help. researchinterrupted.academyhealth.org

Research Interrupted: Canceled AHRQ Grants | AcademyHealth

When health care research stops, the answers stop with it. Explore AcademyHealth's interactive tracker on canceled AHRQ research grants and lost funding.

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Last week's terminations at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) total at least 150 grants worth $230M. That is over half of the agency's portfolio. It's the latest assault on healthcare, health equity, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #AHRQ 🧪

Termination of AHRQ grants is the latest assault on health equity and the rule of law. – Grant Witness

The agency charged with finding ways to make American health care more effective has been gutted. Last week’s terminations are just the latest blow.

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Welp, after waiting for nearly a year for my (already allocated) funding, my AHRQ R01 was “not awarded continued funding” (aka terminated). After four years of data collection and $2 million spent, we did not receive our fifth year to analyze the data.

AcademyHealth@academyhealth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“People have been hired. Patients have been recruited. Lots of work is going on, and all of that is now wasted.” AcademyHealth CEO @aaronecarroll.bsky.social responds to the termination of dozens of AHRQ-funded health research projects here:

AcademyHealth is working to understand a significant new development affecting AHRQ-funded research. Researchers across the country are reaching out after receiving notices from AHRQ regarding grant funding changes. If you received a notice, please contact us: advocacy@academyhealth.org

AHRQ grant cancellations are no longer theoretical, they're happening. We've heard from many researchers and institutions affected by notices ending continuation funding for ongoing projects. Read what we know so far, why these cancellations matter, and how we're responding.

AHRQ Has Begun Canceling Research Grants. Here's What We Know.

Researchers across the country have begun receiving official notices from AHRQ informing them that continuation funding for their grants will not be awarded.

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As our CEO @aaronecarroll.bsky.social told NOTUS about the wave of AHRQ grant cancellations, “What concerns us most is very different projects appear to have received the same rationale for their cancellations.” buff.ly/DOInzD8 If your funding has been affected, email advocacy@academyhealth.org.

Trump Administration Cuts Off Health Care Research Grants Without Warning

Researchers received notices Wednesday that their awards are terminated, after months of silence from the administration.

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Welp, after waiting for nearly a year for my (already allocated) funding, my AHRQ R01 was “not awarded continued funding” (aka terminated). After four years of data collection and $2 million spent, we did not receive our fifth year to analyze the data.

AcademyHealth@academyhealth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“People have been hired. Patients have been recruited. Lots of work is going on, and all of that is now wasted.” AcademyHealth CEO @aaronecarroll.bsky.social responds to the termination of dozens of AHRQ-funded health research projects here:

"They're making huge decisions that affect patients' lives, health systems, clinicians, and jobs all over the country.” @aaronecarroll.bsky.social discusses the growing impact of AHRQ grant cancellations here: buff.ly/nZLZeUy If your funding has been affected, contact advocacy@academyhealth.org.

POLITICO Pro: Health department abruptly cancels health research grants worth millions

Confused researchers say some grants were aligned with HHS priorities.

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🚨🚨This directly affects me, as I may not get year 5 of my award that was set to be renewed 8/1. Spent 4 years of #AHRQ funding to collect data on children with #tracheostomy. If not resolved by 9/30, I may not have the funding to analyze the data. www.sgim.org/news/sgim-an...

SGIM and NAPCRG File Lawsuit Against HHS Over Halt to AHRQ Grantmaking - SGIM

The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for halting a...

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🚨🚨This directly affects me, as I may not get year 5 of my award that was set to be renewed 8/1. Spent 4 years of #AHRQ funding to collect data on children with #tracheostomy. If not resolved by 9/30, I may not have the funding to analyze the data. www.sgim.org/news/sgim-an...

SGIM and NAPCRG File Lawsuit Against HHS Over Halt to AHRQ Grantmaking - SGIM

The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for halting a...

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I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"

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Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

Stanford president and provost back Harvard in funding fight

The president and provost said Harvard’s rejection of government demands was “rooted in the American tradition of liberty.”

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

The Promise of American Higher Education: www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

The Promise of American Higher Education

No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

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Christopher Russell, MD, MS (he/his/him)@cjrussellmd.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud of my alma mater: “We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

Proud of my alma mater: “We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

Harvard rejects Trump administration’s demands with federal funding at risk

The university’s response comes after the government announced a federal review of nearly $9 billion in funding to Harvard and its affiliates.

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The NIH grant that has supported 38 years of training the best pediatrician-scientists in the country (I’m a proud former recipient) was cancelled. It was just approved for a 5 year renewal. The PSDP has supported the careers of many NIH-funded pediatrician-scientists and thought leaders

This censorship of science is SHAMEFUL. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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Preliminary injunction in nationwide indirect cost rate case. This means that the judge found that the plaintiffs (AAMC, et al.) are likely to win on the merits when the ruling is finalized. www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/n...

Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments

A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty

A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...

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This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wonderful to collaborate with @lkelley-quon.bsky.social!

Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, MSHS, FACS, FAAP@lkelley-quon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thank you @wordinblacknews.bsky.social for highlighting our @jama.com paper demonstrating The Unequal Weight of a Drug Test. @cjrussellmd.bsky.social @iasatusc.bsky.social @keckmedicineusc.bsky.social

How Capping NIH Indirect Costs at 15% Hurts Science, Jobs, and Public Health 1/ The new cap to indirect costs at 15% on NIH grants may sound like a way to cut wasteful spending. In reality, it would devastate biomedical research, slow medical breakthroughs, and cost jobs. Y'all know I love a good 🧵

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

“This is a blatant attempt to gut the universities and health research that have saved so many lives and given economic opportunity to so many people.” @iwashyna.bsky.social on impact of new NIh order to cut research indirect costs. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science

The NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15%

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2y ago

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

Withdrawal of funding mid-trial is a serious violation of research ethics and implicates all of us who engage in clinical research. Ethical review boards around the world will have to re-evaluate allowing US-funded projects. The balance between harm-benefit is complexly upended.

whet moser@whetmoser.com · 2y ago

"The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away." jesus christ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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thinking this morning about how the NIH's definition of diversity also includes uplifting struggling Americans of all races and genders (formerly homeless, on WIC, foster kids, first-gen students, rural Americans, etc)