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.