Greetings Research Colleagues,
An August 21 Supreme Court decision in American Public Health Universities v. NIH 1:25-cv-10787, a companion case to Massachusetts v. Kennedy, let stand a lower court ruling that the underlying policies leading to NIH grant terminations were likely unlawful. However, at the same time, it ruled that NIH could still cancel previously terminated grants.
See the list of potentially impacted UW grants. (UW Net ID required.)
The matter of the lawfulness of the policies will now need to be adjudicated in what is known as the Court of Claims.
While this is discouraging news, we want to stress that this is not the end. Our partners in the Attorney General’s Office are tirelessly exploring legal options and we will keep our Select Federal Court Decisions webpage updated.
In the meantime, procedurally, it is possible that NIH will begin sending grantees notifications, terminating impacted grants, even if those have since been reinstated. Until that time, please proceed with recently reinstated NIH projects.
If OSP receives these notifications, they will create the Award Modification in SAGE and route it back to the Principal Investigator and campus unit to complete.
You can review the Office of Research Federal Guidance for the latest information. We also continue to coordinate on the Provost’s Federal Policy Updates webpage.
Thank you,
The Office of Research