ROCHESTER, Minn. — The National Institutes of Health has canceled a grant awarded to researchers at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
The project, “Refinement of a Training Module to Improve Discussions of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Cancer Clinics,” received an $80,700 award from the National Cancer Institute in March 2024.
According to the grant description, the goal of the project was to create training for oncology clinicians — those who treat cancer — “focused on why and how to ask about patient sexual orientation and gender identity.” It cites a lack of data on the needs of sexual and gender minority cancer patients, who “are often diagnosed with late-stage cancer and often die from cancer prematurely.”
The NIH, under control of President Donald Trump, terminated the grant on March 20.
The Mayo Clinic had no comment, a spokesperson told the Post Bulletin.
As of April 1, no other Mayo Clinic grants appear in the data set, made public by the Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System, an arm of the U.S. Department of Human Services.
The TAGGS data set contains hundreds of grants that had been awarded to institutions across the country, all canceled by the NIH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration under “departmental authority.”
Many of the canceled grants focused on the LGBTQ+ community, racial minorities, HIV, and vaccination against COVID-19 and other diseases.
In addition to the Mayo Clinic grant, NIH has canceled funding for several projects at the University of Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Health also lost some CDC funding, and the state Department of Human Services had several grants from SAMHSA pulled.
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