The AAMC filed an April 28 amicus brief (PDF) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in American Public Health Association et al. v NIH, a case opposing the sudden termination of hundreds of research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The AAMC-organized brief was also signed by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the American Council on Education, the Association of American Universities, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, COGR, and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
The amicus brief supports a motion for preliminary injunction filed on April 25 seeking an order directing the NIH to reinstate grants unlawfully terminated based on a purported “change in agency priorities” and to cease delaying, suspending, or cancelling steps needed to review applications for future or ongoing NIH grant funding.