Nidhi Subbaraman
@NidhiSubs
Reporter covering science @wsj. Email me: [email protected] | Signal: nidhisubs.11
Scoop: RFK Jr. is investing $500 million in a vaccine project championed by officials handpicked by the Trump administration wsj.com/health/healthc… w @l_e_whyte
ICYMI: Faculty, trustees and administrators at Harvard, NYU and elsewhere are ramping up conversations with big tech and pharma companies to drive more corporate funding so research stays active. Gift link: wsj.com/us-news/educat… by @EmilyGlazer @sara_randazzo and me
“It’s up to us as adults to protect our children – like, that’s what a parent’s job is,” Van Tornhout said. “I watched my daughter die from something that was preventable … You don’t want to walk in my shoes.” apnews.com/article/vaccin…
An inside look at how University of Minnesota president grapples with massive cuts in federal funding By @JonathanWosen statnews.com/2025/07/21/uni… via @statnews @UMNews
Manhattan Project waste sites linked to higher cancer risk in people who lived nearby as children, new study finds wsj.com/health/healthc… by @Brabbott42
Senate Republicans reached an agreement Tuesday w/ the White House on a slimmed-down $9 billion package of spending cuts that preserves funding for PEPFAR @lindsaywise wsj.com/politics/polic…
Senate Republicans reached an agreement Tuesday with the White House on a slimmed-down $9 billion package of spending cuts that preserves funding for AIDS treatments in Africa wsj.com/politics/polic…
Reporting from Stephanie Armour at @KFFHealthNews on the financial conflicts of interest in RFK Jr's HHS: kffhealthnews.org/MjA1OTA4OQ via @kffhealthnews
SCOOP: Harvard leaders have discussed creating a center for conservative scholarship, sources say, possibly modeled on Stanford’s Hoover Institution, as the school fights the Trump administration’s accusations that it is too liberal. wsj.com/us-news/educat…
Measles cases in the U.S. have reached a three-decade high wsj.com/health/u-s-mea…
Scoop: HHS has devised a legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows. Via @AnilOza16 statnews.com/2025/07/06/hhs…
Millions will lose Medicaid coverage, hospitals’ uncompensated work will increase and insurers will lose big business as a result of President Trump’s tax-and-spending-cuts law wsj.com/health/healthc…
Homeowners in fire-prone states are setting their properties on fire to get rid of vegetation that can send wildfires racing across the landscape. @eniiler reports for #WSJScience. wsj.com/us-news/climat… via @WSJ
Cannonball, belly-flop or a New Zealand manu? Physicists explain how to make the biggest splash when you hit the water. @NidhiSubs reports for #WSJScienceShorts wsj.com/science/physic… via @WSJ
Cannonball, belly-flop or a New Zealand manu? Physicists explain how to make the biggest splash when you hit the water. @NidhiSubs reports for #WSJScienceShorts wsj.com/science/physic… via @WSJ
Europe is wooing American researchers with funding as the Trump administration cancels grants wsj.com/world/europe/e… by @NBisserbe and me
Trump Administration Weighs Eliminating Funds for Hospitals Offering Gender Care to Minors wsj.com/health/healthc… @l_e_whyte reports
Harvard and other top universities look to big tech and pharma companies to fill federal funding gap after Trump cuts wsj.com/us-news/educat… By @NidhiSubs , me + @sara_randazzo
Harvard and other top universities look to big tech and pharma companies to fill federal funding gap after Trump cuts @NidhiSubs @EmilyGlazer @sara_randazzo wsj.com/us-news/educat…
RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Has a New Approach: Question Everything wsj.com/health/healthc… @l_e_whyte reports from Atlanta
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new panel of vaccine advisers will re-evaluate the recommended schedule for vaccines for children and teenagers wsj.com/politics/polic… by @l_e_whyte @dmosbergen