Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, said on June 10 that he hopes the Trump administration can reach settlements with universities whose research grants have been suspended.
“I’m very hopeful that these universities where these pauses have happened will come to terms so that we can move forward,” Bhattacharya told a Senate Appropriations Committee subcommittee on health.
That includes Harvard University, he said. Administration officials have canceled billions in grants to Harvard after it declined to change policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and anti-Semitism.
Bhattacharya told senators he has worked to make sure certain grants, including for clinical trials, have not been paused….