Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health on Monday openly protested the Trump administration’s cuts to the agency and consequences for human lives, writing in a sharply worded letter that its actions are causing “a dramatic reduction in life-saving research.

Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.

The National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said he is open to an increased budget from Congress during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday, during which Republicans

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told the Senate Appropriations Committee that Donald Trump's budget is "not a final thing," but Republicans and Democrats protested.

When asked by Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., who was specifically responsible for the grant terminations and delays at the NIH, Bhattacharya said it varied by grant, citing the university research funding changes as a "joint" decision between the Trump administration and NIH.

In an open letter, researchers and staff at the National Institutes of Health raise concerns over recent policy changes.

In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.

More than 300 staff members across the National Institutes of Health’s 27 institutes sent a letter to the agency’s director June 9, condemning disruptions to medical research and cuts to essential staff in recent months.