Revealed: inside the US military’s plan to tap huge sums from the NIH An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense. By Max Kozlov

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02799-5?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=38d7039c4f-nature-briefing-daily-20260907&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50432164 NIH strikes deal with Dept of Defense The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has signed an agreement with the US Department of Defense to redirect research projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars from its institute for infectious diseases to military biodefence programmes. The 10-year agreement would establish a pathway to move funding out of the NIH “on a project-by-project basis”, said an agency spokesperson in a statement. But some researchers worry that shifting biomedical research to the military threatens the transparency and clinical translation that define NIH-funded work.