On February 7, 2026 President Trump issued executive orders cutting all NIH indirect costs to 15%, and on February 23, 2026 ordered NIH to halt all Federal Register submissions, effectively stopping all pending grant funding. Multiple lawsuits have been filed by 22 state attorneys general, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Association of American Universities related to…

The Trump administration has blocked a crucial step in the NIH process for funding medical research, in violation of a federal judge’s restraining order, The Guardian reported today.  This has effectively “shut down the extramural research program” according to Northwest University biologist Carole LaBonne.  According to University of Michigan law professor Samuel Bagenstos, this is a “clear violation” of…

On February 10th, 2014 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released details about its fiscal mandates for the year. President Obama signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act (Public Law 113-76) into law on January 17th 2014, ensuring funding to NIH for the fiscal year ending September 30th, 2014.

The Act provides NIH with a budget of $30.15 billion, which is an increase…

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research was awarded $8.1 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct a novel clinical trial using whole genome sequencing to test women and their partners, before they actually conceive, for mutations that could cause rare, but serious diseases in their offspring.

The project is part of the Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research…

CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA – Though the U.S. Federal government implemented budget sequestration on March 1st, canceling $85 billion in budgetary resources across the Federal government for the remainder of the 2013 fiscal year, U.S. academic researchers spend on life science reagents and instruments decreased as early as October, 2012, according to Percepta’s recent benchmarking study.

The study objectives were to understand…

As has been shown again and again, seemingly homogeneous cell populations often consist of more than one cell type, which can confound research results. Single-cell research offers a bottom-up approach to circumventing such unwanted cellular heterogeneity. As a testament to its potential promise, the NIH has committed ~$90 million over 5 years to single cell analysis research. At Percepta,…

According to a new market research from Percepta, US life scientists anticipate $7.4 billion in new NIH grant funds by 2010

Carlsbad, CA – August 12, 2009 – Percepta Associates announced today the release of a new complimentary market research report Life Science Research Funding Optimism In The United States: A Researcher’s Perspective. The report details the anticipated impact of…

As a marketing consultancy that serves the research biotools industry, Percepta’s business is more or less directly linked to the market dynamics of life science research in general. These market dynamics can be – well … dynamic. For example, as noted in earlier posts, research funding is the engine that drives the research biotools industry and to a large…

Last October our little consultancy looked around and noticed things had begun to slow down a bit. New business wasn’t banging at the door and we had to face an unpleasant truth – we were not as immune to the economic downturn as we had hoped.

Percepta is a San Diego area marketing consultancy serving biological research tools suppliers. You…