F&A [Facilities & Administrative] costs, also known as IER [Indirect Expense Recovery] or Indirect Costs, are real costs that are necessary to cover expenses which cannot be charged directly to a ...

The National Institutes of Health has made a landmark decision that could irreparably damage the backbone of American scientific innovation: a dramatic reduction in the indirect cost rate for research ...

What are Indirect (IDC or F&A) Costs? Federal Regulations define IDC as "Indirect costs are those that have been incurred for common or joint objectives and cannot be readily identified with a ...

The University joined litigation against the U.S. Department of Energy and DOE Secretary Chris Wright, according to a Monday email from President Michael Kotlikoff and Provost Kavita Bala. The ...

Pamela Canaday loves her job. For the last 20 years, she has been supporting biomedical research labs at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland by running flow cytometry, a test that helps ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists said ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) published guidance late on Feb. 7, 2025, setting the indirect cost rate for NIH grants at 15 percent, replacing the negotiated indirect cost rates at many ...

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) plan to cut indirect cost reimbursement for NIH-funded research grants will have “a significantly disruptive impact on UB’s ability to carry out lifesaving ...

Indirect costs (Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs) are charged to externally sponsored awards, unless specifically prohibited by the funding agency. A percentage of indirect (F&A) costs ...

Since 1947, the federal government has provided research institutions with funding for administrative and facilities costs such as rent, heating, and electricity in addition to direct costs for ...