NIH grant cancellations cost Pitt more than $40 million, upending neighborhood-focused research

Two NIH grants at the University of Pittsburgh were canceled, ending a combined research effort worth over $21 million and costing the university about $5.04 million in the final years of the awards. The losses hit Alzheimer’s researcher Ann Cohen and epidemiologist Tamara Dubowitz, including Cohen’s $3.5 million and Dubowitz’s $1.54 million, with at least seven staff downsized and ripple effects across labs and community studies involving about 1,100 participants. Since President Trump took office, Pitt has lost roughly $40.7 million in NIH funding, highlighting a broader funding crunch that Pitt says it will navigate while continuing its research and community-health work.