The administration of US President Donald Trump has put on hold the operations of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the country’s premier biomedical research institution, Report informs via Bloomberg.

The Trump administration has pressed pause on a vital cog in the US biomedical research machine: the National Institutes of Health, the agency said.

Grant reviews, travel, and hiring are frozen indefinitely, it noted emphasizing that even small disruptions at the NIH can have serious consequences, particularly for young researchers.