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- **Posted:** 2025-02-26T16:34:21.000+00:00
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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 beyond panels’ inability to review and recommend new grants, the changes also affect current grant recipients like herself. Her lab at UNC – which studies cells’ membrane proteins to understand how they interact with treatments for diseases, like cancer – is partially funded by a federal grant that has one year remaining. Between the communication freezes, her grant having a diversity component and seeing its expiration date fluctuate online, Starbird says it’s been difficult to plan for what comes next.

“I still have no idea if that means the grant will actually be funded in the last year,” she says. “But our understanding – based on what the administration is doing and what they’re stating, not just inferring – is that grants like this might possibly be cut.”

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