Department of Medicine

Many Colorado health research grants canceled by Trump have been reinstated – but impacts are still being felt

Written by The Denver Post | August 15, 2025

Lisa Abuogi, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, recently got word that her grant to study ways of serving pregnant and postpartum women dealing with both HIV and common mental health conditions was reinstated. But Kenya Medical Research Institute, the institution she’s partnering with, still hasn’t received its NIH grant, she said. “In effect, we still can’t restart the work,” she said.