NIH Report for Week of Feb 2, 2026
NIH
This Week’s Snapshot
For this week, 2026-02-02, Grant Witness has picked up on the following changes to the NIH grants:
- ❌ Terminations, 🧊 Frozen Funding: 0
- 🔄 Possibly Reinstated, 💧 Possibly Unfrozen Funding, 🚰 Unfrozen Funding: 0
If you want to compare this week’s reported disruptions to cumulative weekly trends, Table 1 provides more context on which NIH grants have been terminated and reinstated since 2025-02-03
With this week’s disruptions, the total lost funding for NIH grants across all US states, DC, and Puerto Rico is now approximately: $722.31 Million
The states with the largest disruption of NIH grants are: New York, Massachusetts, and California
If you want to explore this topic further, Table 2 breaks down terminated, reinstated, and lost funding for NIH grants by state, specifically affected on and before 2026-02-02.
Additionally, for a breakdown of NIH grant disruptions across institutions, see Table 3, Table 4, and Table 5, which lists the number of grants that were ever disrupted, currently terminated and currently reinstated across grant recipients, respectively.
Weekly Terminations vs Reinstatements
The following visualization shows the weekly number of terminated and reinstated grants since 2025-02-03. For more information about how the statuses “termination” and “reinstatement” are determined along with their dates, check out the “Methods” post.
To calculate the weekly change in grant disruptions, we calculate the total number of reinstatements (+) for that week and subtract the total number of terminations (-) from it.
The cumulative net terminated grants, which represents how many grants have been terminated since 2025-02-03, is calculated as the sum of the weekly changes. When this value is equal to zero that means all terminated grants have been reinstated.
Grants by State
- Total disruption includes all grants that have been ever terminated. Even if a grant is currrently reinstated, it is included in this total, since the grant had been previously terminated.
- Currently terminated grants exclude any grants that have been reinstated.
- Currently reinstated grants exclude any grants that have been terminated.
- “Lost funding” is the amount of funding awarded to grants that was not paid out because of terminations, excluding reinstated grants.
Grants by Type
In this report, we distinguish between the following grant types:
- R Series: These grants fund independent research projects led by a principal investigator. These are the most common types of NIH grants. Funding goes towards research aims rather than training or career development.
- T Series: These grants go to institutions to support training programs for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers. A single T grant will support multiple trainees. These grants fund stipends, tuition, and training activities (e.g. courses, workshops, conferences).
- Individual Training / Fellowships (F Series): These are research training grants for individuals, rather than institutions. The goal of these grants is to help predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees gain skills needed for a successful research career.
- Early Career (K Series): These are grants for individual researchers (usually postdocs or early-career faculty) to help them become independent scientists. They provide salary support and research funding.
The table below lists the number of confirmed terminated grants for each grant type from every state, as listed in the “termination_date” field in the NIH Rescinded Grants Database.
Grants by Recipients
All Disruptions
The following table is ordered by which institutions had the most number of disrupted grants, which includes grants that are currently reinstated, since at one point that grant had been terminated.
Current Terminations
The following table is ordered by which institutions, as of 2026-02-02, currently have the most number of terminated grants. The top ten institutions are listed first.
Current Reinstatements
The following table is ordered by which institutions, as of 2026-02-02, currently have the most number of reinstated grants. The top ten institutions are listed first.