The National Institutes of Health is set to shelve a funding programme on research into gun violence and how to prevent it.
The programme, which was ordered by then-president Barack Obama after the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, has funded 22 projects for $18 million over the past three years, according to a report in Science magazine on 13 September.
NIH stopped accepting proposals in January with the last awards underway. The agency said the programme is “still under consideration”, but neglected to mention a timeline for a decision.
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