Most Americans don’t read the rules that govern the federal grants funding science. Those rules, called the Uniform Guidance, shape how cancer research is funded, graduate students are trained, clinical trials are sustained, universities stock their labs and discoveries from those labs move into broader society.
When the Trump administration announced on May 29, 2026, its intentions to revise these rules, many researchers were alarmed.
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