The Trump administration canceled $796,569 worth of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants to the University of Alabama at Birmingham in March.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the three canceled UAB grants and others are listed online in accordance with the Trump memo "Radical Transparency About Wasteful Spending."
The NIH grant to UAB titled "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in acute kidney injury" was canceled on March 3. The original grant award was $222,750. According to HHS, the anticipated amount canceled as a result of grant termination is 33 cents.
Two NIH grants to UAB titled "Sex Hormones and Identity affect Nociceptive SHINE)" were also canceled on March 12. The original grant awards were worth $99,947 and $473,872. According to HHS, the amounts canceled due to the grant terminations are $80,462 and $381,484.
1819 News reported on the grants in February. Nociceptive expression refers to the body's pain sensitivity. UAB has received $1.5 million in federal grants from the NIH in recent years to study the pain thresholds of transgenders.
According to the NIH, the funding for the research began in 2022 so UAB can study how gender identity influences pain sensitivity.
According to the NIH, UAB's research of transgender pain sensitivity was the "first exploration of the impact of gender identity, sex assigned at birth and hormonal status on quality of life, pain sensitivity and immune cell activity in trans individuals."
"This investigation will also provide critical information with respect to the needs of this underserved and critically understudied population," according to the NIH.
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