We’re talking about massive layoffs across the Triangle if this (rule) holds,” former UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp said.

District Judge Angel Kelley, who was nominated by former President Joe Biden in 2021, halted the proposed policy that would cap NIH research funds’ “indirect costs rates” for “facilities” and “administration” costs,

North Carolina's top research universities could lose millions of dollars in support if a Trump administration revision to funding from the National Institutes of Health holds up.

A federal judge paused cuts that the Trump administration had made to funding for public health research, but Monday’s temporary restraining order will apply only in the 22 Democratic-led states that brought a lawsuit challenging the reduction in funding.

A judge halted NIH funding cuts that California and Democratic-run states say could harm life-saving medical research work at UC, Cal State and other universities. The suit said the cuts violated federal law.

Democratic attorneys general from 22 U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging sharp cuts to federal grant funding for universities, medical centers and other research institutions by President Donald Trump's administration.