The National Institutes of Health, or NIH, is the world’s largest funder of biomedical research. With a budget of almost $48 billion, it supports research at many hospitals and universities, including UC Santa Barbara. But over a billion dollars of this research grant funding continues to be in limbo under the second Trump administration. KCSB’s Joyce Chi talked to Dr. Tommy Sprague, a professor of neuroscience at UCSB, to discuss the uncertainty.