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Biomedical research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and performed at research universities helps assure U.S. leadership in the life sciences revolution of the 21st Century. Putting NIH on a sustained pathway to restore its purchasing power after a decade worth of loss to inflation and budget cuts is critical to sustaining the extraordinary progress in the improvement of human health of the past decades. Investment in NIH will continue to create jobs and strengthen the workforce, improve the lives—and quality of life—of millions of current and future patients, and help assure continuing U.S. economic and national security.

Sustained investment in biotechnology and genomics is crucial to the development of novel therapies for diseases, including: cancer, Alzheimer's, autism, and diabetes. The NIH also responds rapidly to public health emergencies and in support of biodefense, such as in the case of Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19.

 

AAU Joins Amicus Brief on NIH Grant Terminations

AAU joined AAMC and six other higher education associations in filing an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States, urging the court to deny the government’s stay application in a case involving the mass termination of NIH grants. The brief highlights how the administration’s abrupt cancellation of thousands of grants undermines the NIH’s science-based grantmaking process and destabilizes the biomedical research enterprise. They argue that funding decisions should be based on rigorous scientific review, not political considerations, and that the terminations threaten long-term scientific progress.
National Institutes of Health | Legal Brief

AAU, Associations Send Letter Regarding NIH Grant Terminations

AAU joined 4 other associations in sending a letter to Dr. Bhattacharya at the NIH to reinstate the grants that have been "terminated under agency directives found by a federal court to be unlawful."
Letters | National Institutes of Health

Statement of AAU President Barbara R. Snyder on the Administration’s Halt of FY25 NIH Medical Research Funding

An administration order to the NIH to cease critical appropriated funding for ongoing and new clinical trials of treatments and cures for American patients who need it most would end ongoing life-saving cancer research, desperately needed Alzheimer's research, and diabetes research, among others.
Agency Budgets | Federal Budget | Press Releases | National Institutes of Health

NIH Funding Cuts Will Result in Fewer Drugs Coming to Market, CBO Finds

A permanent 10% reduction in federal funding for the National Institutes of Health would lead to fewer drugs coming to market, finds a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
Leading Research Universities Report | Federal Budget | National Institutes of Health

AAU Says President’s Budget Would Cripple American Scientific Leadership

President Trump’s FY26 budget proposal, if adopted, would destroy America’s longstanding role as the global leader in science and innovation – along with the countless health, security, and economic benefits that flow from that leadership.
Agency Budgets | Federal Budget | Press Releases | National Institutes of Health | National Science Foundation | Department of Energy | NASA

AAU Outlines Concerns About Massive Research Cuts in FY26 Presidential Budget Request

AAU has issued a statement regarding provisions slashing research funding in the newly released FY26 Presidential Budget Request.
Agency Budgets | Federal Budget | Press Releases | National Institutes of Health | National Science Foundation | Department of Defense | Department of Energy

NIH Research Funding Supports Jobs, Fuels the U.S. Economy

Every $1 spent by the National Institutes of Health in research funding in FY24 generated $2.56 of economic activity, according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
Leading Research Universities Report | National Institutes of Health

AAU, Associations Submit Letter on NIH’s Plan on Metadata and PIDs

AAU joined APLU, ARL, and COGR to submit a letter to the NIH Office of Science Policy expressing their strong support for NIH's vision for standardizing metadata and PIDs.
Letters | Science & Security | National Institutes of Health

Legal Filings Submitted by AAU, APLU, ACE, and Universities Contesting Cuts to Medical Research

This is a legal filing contesting the unlawful and damaging decree by the administration to cap F&A reimbursement rates to a 15% for all NIH research.
Legal Filing | Costs of Research (F&A Costs) | Research Administration & Regulation | National Institutes of Health

Statement of Association of American Universities, Association of Public & Land-grant Universities, and American Council on Education Regarding Their Legal Challenge to the Administration’s Cut to Life-saving NIH Research

AAU, ACE, and APLU have jointly filed suit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, along with a number of impacted research university co-plaintiffs, seeking to halt the NIH's proposed cut to life-saving medical research.
Costs of Research (F&A Costs) | Press Releases | Research Administration & Regulation | National Institutes of Health