Letter to NIH Director Dr. Bhattacharya from leading nutrition and health scientists

On June 12, 2025, leading nutrition and health scientists called upon U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, Dr. Bhattacharya, to increase federal investments in nutrition research and publicly affirm his commitment to independent science at NIH, free from political interference. In the letter, the scientists explicitly ask that he: 1) provide $120 million to the NIH Office of Nutrition Research, 2) create a state-of-the-art research environment for highly controlled human studies to obtain results at a scale and pace that answers key questions in months, not years, 3) adequately fund nutrition science by doubling the current NIH nutrition budget to $4 billion, and 4) create an institutional home for this research in a National Institute of Nutrition.