NHLBI Lagging on funding and communication What is the Deal?
NHLBI has not awarded any NEW R01 funding opportunities this year, furthermore the majority of the 40 some odd application in 2026 awarded, the majority are R35, or K awards (most might i add are in cells or humans, thought for another sub). Furthermore, they have not updated anything on the website, the last two council meetings were done and live, but the videos of the public session are not available for viewing, nothing has been release regarding budget guidelines, available budget to the institute, etc. Not even an updated version of the institutes funding priorities. The best i have gotten from them beyond a SBIR email today is repeated spamming of the NHLBI Catalyse program email. Does anyone have any idea what the heck is going on at NHLBI? why are other institutes like NIA, NIDDK shelling out new R01, but a larger IC like NHLBI is not.
I understand that we are in a new unknown era, and that things have been delayed, but those delays do not appear to be affecting other IC's so why is NHLBI feel so behind?