The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

The move would reduce the share of NIH grants paid to “indirect” costs—lab upkeep, administration and operation—to 15 percent, cutting their historical rate almost in half, overnight.

Academic medical centers use that funding to cover the cost of administrative and infrastructure expenses tied to research. The policy threatens billions of dollars in NIH grant funding ...

Any delays in progress by stalling grant-review processes, curtailing funding streams or disrupting the basic structure of NIH will interfere with its current operations, slow the momentum of ...

A new estimate reveals how much a proposed cap on NIH grants would cost each state. The fallout over the Trump administration’s imposition of a cap on National Institutes of Health payments for ...

The move, announced Friday night by the National Institutes of Health, drastically cuts NIH’s funding for “indirect” costs related to research. These are the administrative requirements ...

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.

"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 ...

Federal health research funding has faced a tumultuous four days after the Trump administration announced cuts Friday to a certain type of funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH ...