Overview
- Judicial Watch filed the case on Jan. 2, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, docketed as No. 1:25-cv-04498.
- The complaint seeks all NIH Office of Extramural Research documents and communications tied to the Final Research Performance Progress Report for the University of Pittsburgh GUDMAP project, Project U24-DK110791-01.
- The NIH project abstract titled “University of Pittsburgh as the GUDMAP Tissue Hub and Collection Site” describes a FY2016 $600,000 grant that supported procurement, processing, and distribution of human fetal tissues.
- Judicial Watch says it turned to litigation after HHS and NIH did not comply with its May 30, 2025 FOIA request for those records.
- The group cites earlier disclosures reporting nearly $3 million in related federal funding and frames the suit as a transparency effort, while no agency response is included in the current coverage.