Proposed cuts by the Trump administration to a type of federal funding from the National Institutes of Health would pose a credit challenge to universities that receive the funds, analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

More than half a billion dollars are at stake for Massachusetts universities, hospitals, and research institutions if federal funding for biomedical research is slashed.

Johns Hopkins University has joined a dozen other research institutions in a federal lawsuit challenging the National Institute of Health’s indirect cost rate cuts.

The federal order temporarily halts the Trump administration’s plans to slash $4 billion in overhead costs for research at universities and medical centers into diseases like cancer.

Grants from the National Institutes of Health have helped create breakthroughs in cancer treatments, heart disease and vaccine development. But scientists from some of the nation's top medical labs are warning that the Trump administration's plan to cut $4 billion in funding for equipment and research staff could jeopardize medical progress.

Oregon and 21 other states sued Monday to block the National Institutes of Health’s surprise slashing of medical research support.

The Trump administration recently announced the National Institutes of Health will make big changes in the way it funds researchers. Scientists say the move will have a huge effect on their work. We hear from medical researchers about the cuts and Amna Nawaz discusses more with Dr.