The National Institutes of Health agreed in court filings to reevaluate hundreds of grant applications it previously shelved or denied, reversing a pattern of funding rejections tied to political decisions during the prior year. The move follows litigation alleging the agency declined or delayed proposals for reasons outside normal peer review. The partial course‑correction will affect university researchers whose projects were stalled and could restore funding for labs that lost momentum during the freeze, with implications for research timelines and graduate training pipelines.