The Prevent Halting of Active Research Act of 2025 requires the National Institutes of Health to immediately release all frozen funding for existing grant and cooperative agreements and to process any pending reimbursement requests. The bill prohibits NIH from canceling agreements where researchers are conducting active, ongoing work, and it prevents the agency from terminating agreements simply because they no longer align with current program goals or agency priorities. For all new grants issued after the bill's enactment, NIH must include termination clauses that specify agreements can only end due to material breach, changed circumstances, or mutual consent—with a required 90-day notice and opportunity to renegotiate terms before termination. The legislation targets concerns about research disruptions and funding freezes, affecting thousands of researchers and institutions that receive NIH grants across the country.
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