NIH senior scientists faced with losing positions get 1-year extension

A group of senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who were about to lose their positions on 8 March learned at the last minute that they still have a job—at least for another year. Science is aware of at least 17 scientists whose appointments were extended; sources suggest at least 30 in total were given the reprieve. Still, the experience has left some battered. “I’m deeply traumatized and numb,” says one, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal. “This profoundly disrupted critical ongoing studies and put intense strain on my lab. It was senseless and cruel.” Most of the nearly 4000 senior scientists in NIH’s $5.2 billion in-house research program are hired under a statute called Title 42,...

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