Earlier this month, the Trump administration directed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to impose limits on specific ...
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
The NIH, the largest funder of biomedical research in the U.S., will limit funding for indirect costs to 15%. Indirect costs cover expenses like building maintenance and administrative salaries.
But critics argue the new NIH policy would bring sanity to a funding system rife with costs that should be absorbed by institutions. On Monday, a federal judge blocked the cuts, granting a ...
"Of this funding, approximately $26 billion went to direct costs for research, while $9 billion was allocated to overhead through NIH’s indirect cost rate," NIH said. The average indirect cost ...