Policy & Advocacy

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.

Notably, within the Fiscal Policy Notice was the new language regarding multiyear funding that limits the agency’s ability to issue multiyear awards “not to exceed the amount of funds made available…during fiscal year 2025.”

Robert Aderholt, Chair, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee held a hearing with the NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya to discuss a number of issues following up from NIH’s activities in 2025.

Per a STAT survey, the impacts of the Trump administration’s seismic changes to science funding are intensifying, causing researchers to drastically scale back the ambition of their work and driving some to shut down their labs entirely.

The collective voice of the scientific community is a powerful tool. Help GSA advocate for science policy and funding.

Despite extraordinary challenges and major disruptions to the research community in 2025, the collective efforts of FASEB’s 22 member societies—including GSA—led to several meaningful advocacy and policy victories.

Students seeking graduate research scholarships speculate that biology is being disfavored.

H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, funds the National Institutes of Health at $47.2 billion, which is a $415 million increase from fiscal year 2025.

At this virtual office hour, participants will learn about the merit review process and how it governs the evaluation of proposals submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Biological Science.

While the Trump administration attempted to cut the NSF by $5.16 billion, or 57 percent from FY 2025 enacted, and the Department of Energy Office of Science by $1.1 billion or 13 percent, these cuts were rejected in the bicameral, bipartisan compromise for FY 2026 funding bills.