NIH Nominee Might Base Grants on Campus Academic Freedom
Ryan Quinn | 09 December 2024 | Inside Higher Ed
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the National Institutes of Health is considering somehow factoring campus academic freedom into how likely a university is to receive research grants, unnamed sources told The Wall Street Journal. The NIH distributes large sums of money to institutions annually.
The NIH nominee—Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University—has been a vocal critic of both COVID-19–related restrictions and what he calls violations of free speech and academic freedom that limited open discussion about the pandemic…