The BMJ reported that the Trump administration was creating a board of political appointees to oversee decisions about NIH research grants. The development came as U.S. researchers sued Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya over scientific and grant-policy decisions. Scientists were concerned that political control could redirect public funding away from peer review. The dispute places biomedical research funding, grant independence, and federal oversight at issue.
Source: https://bmj.com/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj-2026-100952