Trump's NIH director said agency 'got rid' of all beagle experiments on campus. Here's what we know

In early May 2025, claims (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration shut down a National Institutes of Health laboratory accused of killing beagles in the name of medical research.

One popular X post, viewed more than 76,000 times at the time of this writing, read: "NEW: The Trump administration's NIH under Jay Bhattacharya has just closed its "brutal" beagle experimentation laboratory - Fox It was accused of 'brutally k*lling thousands of beagles for 40+ years.'"

The claim also appeared on Facebook (archived), Threads (archived), Reddit (archived) and TikTok (archived).