Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH

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On September 4, 2026, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) officially signed an agreement. This agreement aims to transfer some of the projects at the NIH’s Institute for Infectious Diseases Research to the military, with an estimated billions of dollars in research funding being allocated.

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# Revealed: Inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH An agreement has been signed between the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DOD), paving the way for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of research projects to be transferred from the NIH's Institute for Infectious Diseases to the military. The tw…