At the end of January, Chrystal Starbird had just submitted her reviews of some grants as part of a panel considering roughly 60 projects requesting federal funding through the National Institutes of Health. But shortly after she sent them in, the structural biologist and UNC assistant professor got a message saying the study section for those grants was halted – and later, postponed. “Our study section was supposed to be the end of January, and we rescheduled to mid-April,” Starbird tells 97.9 The Hill. “But most recently, it’s been paused again.” While a U.S. district court judge issued a temporary restraining order on the funding freeze last month, Starbird’s experience reflects how additional grant reviews and applications have been stopped by the NIH not having access to the Federal Registrar to schedule such reviews and meetings on grants. It’s just one of the many ways the research world has been thrown into chaos by Trump’s administration in its early days. Starbird says bey...