Kansas leaders ask why federal healthcare research dollars haven’t been released

By: Morgan Chilson

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: June 3, 2026

Words: 253

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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TOPEKA — A Kansas healthcare leader and a U.S. Representative are questioning why funding needed to continue essential scientific research isn’t being paid out.

“More than halfway through fiscal 2026, the National Institutes of Health has allocated only 33% of the $26 billion it normally awards to universities,” wrote University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod with Ron Daniels, Johns Hopkins University president, in a Wall Street Journal column in May.

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