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  International Student Resource Center Officially Launches as a Comprehensive Guide for International Students and Scholars November 18, 2025 The International Student Resource Center is proud to announce its official launch, marking a major step forward in providing reliable, timely, and comprehensive immigration information for international students and scholars in the United States. The International Student Resource Center is a first-of-its-kind national organization dedicated to helping international students and scholars navigate the complex landscape of U.S. immigration laws, regulations, and policies. Its mission is to ensure that the more than one million international undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in the United States have access to clear, accurate, and up-to-date information.  Through its online platform, internationalstudent.us , the International Student Resource Center will provide: Comprehensive guides and short videos addressing F-1 and ...

  A Weekly Update of Policy News and Select Funding Opportunities Compiled by  Van Scoyoc Associates View this email in your browser November 21, 2025 Washington Week in Science will not be published next week with the Thanksgiving holiday Health   NIH grant cuts have disrupted hundreds of clinical trials, study finds  The second Trump administration has been defined by widespread cuts to federal spending, including at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A new analysis reveals that the termination of NIH grants has disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, which collectively include more than 74,000 patients. The study, published on Nov. 17 in JAMA Internal Medicine, is a stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump’s health cuts. Read more:   Fierce Biotech   CDC says claims that vaccines do not cause autism are not evidence-based  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its website on Wednesday to say that c...

 Factcheck.org article link here Revised CDC Website About Autism and Vaccines Is Not Evidence-Based by Jessica McDonald and Kate Yandell Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine advocate who is now Health and Human Services secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its website to say that its previous statement that “vaccines do not cause autism” is “not an evidence-based claim.” But it’s the revised website that misleads about vaccines. On Nov. 19, the CDC replaced its  webpage  on autism and vaccines with a  new one  that leans into the discredited idea that vaccines might cause autism. Numerous rigorous studies have repeatedly failed to identify any link between vaccination and autism. “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism,” the webpage reads. “Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authori...

 Thanks to Carolyn Elliott-Farino for this contribution! Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions November 21, 2025 Today, NIH has implemented steps towards a unified strategy that will help guide clearer and consistent funding decisions across all Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs). Building on the  August NIH Director’s statement , this  framework  (effective January 2026 Council round) will help ensure we continue to support the most scientifically meritorious research ideas possible, address health priorities, and support a robust biomedical workforce.   Our funding decisions must balance many competing and dynamic factors when determining the most meritorious research ideas to support. These factors center around peer review, health priorities, scientific opportunities, the workforce, availability of funds, and the wider research portfolio. Thoroughly addressing this balance has implications for t...