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AAMC Statement on 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling in NIH Lawsuit
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AAMC Statement on 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling in NIH Lawsuit
Jan. 6, 2026
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The AAMC issued the following statement on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals decision to affirm a March 2025 U.S. District Court ruling, which maintained an injunction against harmful cuts to research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH):
"The AAMC is pleased that the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the district court's ruling last March that the administration's attempt to cut facilities and administrative (F&A) reimbursement rates for NIH-funded research with no notice was unlawful. The appeals court ruling means that fair and necessary support for the real costs of conducting medical research will continue for the benefit of patients and communities across the country."
Background
The AAMC, with the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals, and Greater New York Hospital Association, along with other plaintiffs in separately-filed actions, had successfully argued in a February 10, 2025 lawsuit in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts that a Feb. 7, 2025, notice issued as "supplemental guidance" to the NIH Grants Policy Statement was unlawful and would result in irreparable harm.
The AAMC is a nonprofit association dedicated to improving the health of people everywhere through medical education, clinical care, biomedical research, and community collaborations. Its members are all 162 U.S. medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education; 13 Canadian medical schools accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools; nearly 500 academic health systems and teaching hospitals, including Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and more than 70 academic societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC leads and serves America's medical schools, academic health systems and teaching hospitals, and the millions of individuals across academic medicine, including more than 210,000 full-time faculty members, 99,000 medical students, 162,000 resident physicians, and 60,000 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the biomedical sciences. Through the Alliance of Academic Health Centers International, AAMC membership reaches more than 60 international academic health centers throughout five regional offices across the globe. Learn more at aamc.org.
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