Faculty/Staff Daily Digest

We are writing with an important update regarding our lawsuit against NIH over the termination or withholding of grant funding for research projects relating to LGBTQI+ health. As you may know, GLMA and sixteen individual researchers, represented by Lambda Legal and two partner law firms (Crowell & Moring LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), sued NIH in GLMA, et al. v. NIH, and won a preliminary injunction that blocks HHS and NIH from terminating, suspending, or withholding grant funding for LGBTQI+ health-related research projects based on the grounds that the research relates to “gender identity,” “transgender issues,” “DEI,” “LGBTQI+ health,” “sexual orientation,” or “gender ideology,” among others. A copy of the injunction is available here. 

Under the injunction, the terminations of NIH-funded, LGBTQI+ health-related grants of any members of GLMA under the challenged directives have now been vacated and the grant funding must be restored. 

This is a critical victory. However, to make sure your grant is covered by the injunction, you must complete the following two steps:

1. Check your membership status: The injunction only applies to active GLMA members, so please confirm that your GLMA membership is active and that your dues have been paid within the last year by logging in here. (If you have questions regarding your membership status, please email GLMA’s Membership Associate, JJ Jensen, at jjensen@glma.org.)
   
   
2. Report your terminated grant or pending application for funding: In order for the funding for your research to be covered and protected under the injunction in our case, we need to know about it. Our lawyers will then use the information to provide the grant or application number to NIH for restoration of the grant or ensuring the application is no longer delayed. Your grant funding is covered whether you are a principal investigator, co-investigator, or sub-awardee. 
   
   Importantly, even if your terminated grant has been restored or your application for funding has now been reassigned to a study section, it is recommended that you report it as the injunctions obtained in other cases (such as Massachusetts v. Kennedy and APHA v. NIH) rested on different legal grounds and are currently on appeal. Indeed, the Supreme Court just stayed the portion ordering restoration of grants in those other cases.
   
   Use this form https://lambdalegal.org/glma-member-survey/ to provide necessary information on your grant funding award or application for inclusion to ensure it is covered and protected. 
   
   You must complete this form by no later than Friday, August 29, 2025 so that your previously terminated grant, withheld renewal, or delayed application may be covered and restored.