More than half a billion dollars are at stake for Massachusetts universities, hospitals, and research institutions if federal funding for biomedical research is slashed.

The order was temporarily blocked after Massachusetts and 21 other states filed a lawsuit opposing the NIH funding cuts.

Massachusetts and 22 other states are suing the Trump administration to stop the feds from cutting National Institutes of Health funding. Why it matters: Harvard University and MIT alone rely on hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH funding to advance medical research.