Policy & Advocacy

The May 14–15 NIH Council of Councils meeting highlighted several themes shaping NIH priorities, including chronic disease prevention, rigor and reproducibility, implementation-oriented science, and shared research infrastructure.

This free guide explains details of OMB's proposed rule and offers actionable tips for scientists to oppose it. Comments are due to OMB by July 13.

Register for Stand Up for Science's emergency meeting at 4 p.m. EDT to discuss the effects of OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule and how to take action to defend scientific research.

Former GSA Board member Brandon Ogbunu will moderate this event, which will discuss the status of the U.S. research enterprise, global leadership in science, and implications for economic competitiveness.

This congressionally-mandated, data-rich report (released biannually) summarizes the patterns in US science R&D and workforce development, as well as the impacts of federal STEM funding.

The FY 2027 President’s Budget proposes to expand multi-year funding to 100 percent of all new awards, dramatically reducing the number of new, promising scientific applications that NIH can fund.

The Trump administration finalized regulations Thursday that will put in place new loan limits for post-baccalaureate degree programs, which could potentially limit college access for hundreds of thousands of students and weaken pipelines for several high-demand professions.

The National Science Board was created in 1950 to advise the president and Congress on science and engineering policy, approve major funding awards, and guide NSF’s future.

FASEB, of which GSA is a member, expressed serious concerns over the NSB dismissal and its detrimental effects on the National Science Foundation.

This resource from NSF covers operating status and changes to how proposals submitted to NSF-BIO are reviewed.

For NIH, the budget requests $41 billion—a nearly $6 billion or 12 percent cut—in FY 2027 for NIH’s research, and it proposes reforms to the agency with the elimination of the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Fogarty Center, and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.