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I’m a staff reporter in Nature’s Washington, D.C. bureau, where I cover the National Institutes of Health, neuroscience, microbiology and various other biomedical research and policy topics.

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Exclusive: New NIH research center on vaccine harms takes shape

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The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is preparing to launch a clinical research program to study people who believe they were harmed by vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines. In an internal meeting last week, officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) discussed plans for a new research center on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, that could start up in mid-October, Science has learned.
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In autism advisory committee’s funding plan, critics see a veiled antivaccine focus

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1.0x 00:00 7:54 1.0x Audio is AI-generated. Report an issue|Give feedback A federal committee last week approved a controversial plan that could shape the direction of autism research, medical care, and public services for people with the condition through 2029 and recommended doubling investment in the condition.
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For investigators in NIH’s autism initiative, funding comes with a ‘big spotlight’

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1.0x 00:00 7:08 1.0x Audio is AI-generated. Report an issue|Give feedback It’s unusual for a director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to give a great deal of attention to a single $50 million research project. But in recent weeks, Jay Bhattacharya has repeatedly touted his agency’s Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI), which launched in September 2025 and funds roughly a dozen research projects that seek environmental causes of autism using large data sets.
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