A program aimed at increasing the number of biomedical researchers from underrepresented groups fell victim to the Trump administration’s attacks on diversity this spring.

The Initiative for Maximizing Student Development at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, begun in 2009, had been budgeted $712,108 this fiscal year, according to a website that tracks National Institutes of Health grant terminations. The IMSD program had received $273,558 when NIH terminated the grant in April, according to the website.

A separate National Institutes of Health report shows the project principals received $379,791 in fiscal 2024 and $332,317 this fiscal year.

The grant was one of eight at UAMS that NIH shut down because language in the grant descriptions contained words indicating they

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