Tag: NIH

The Trump administration canceled a $1.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) last week.

The National Institutes for Health gave the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2023 a $408,375 federal grant to study how testosterone therapy affects transgender men’s susceptibility to HIV infection.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham recently received a $158,085 federal grant from the National Institutes of Health to study “vaginal health for transgender men on testosterone.”

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) recently secured a $20 million increase in a National Institute of Health program designed to cut down on maternal deaths and improve health care for women before, during, and after pregnancy.

The University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) is in the top 1% of “public, private and international organizations” funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to a press release from the university.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) addressed the media on Wednesday to discuss two public health oversight bills that he signed last week.