NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests

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NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests​

04/21/25

Demonstrators protest funding cuts outside NIH offices in Bethesda, Md., on March 8


The National Institutes of Health appears to be preparing to prohibit the awarding of new grants to any institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies, in what would be an escalation of the Trump administration’s use of research funding as leverage to dismantle activities at universities that it deems discriminatory or antisemitic.
A draft of the new terms and conditions for research grants, reviewed by STAT, would require recipients of NIH funds to certify that they do not have any “diversity, equity, and inclusion” or “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” programs, and that they do not participate in boycotts of Israeli companies or firms doing business in Israel. The draft notice goes on to say that if a grantee is found to be violating these terms, the NIH can terminate the award and claw back funding that was disbursed.
Two NIH officials shared the document with STAT. While it does not include a “release date,” a screen shot from an internal NIH grants management site shows that it is slated to be published as soon as this Friday, April 25. It’s not clear, however, whether it’s been approved by top officials at NIH, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Management and Budget.