The NIH, the main funder of biomedical research, awarded about $35 billion in grants to research groups last year. The total is divided into “direct” costs – covering researchers’ salaries and ...

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President Trump's nominee to lead the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, demurred on his view on Trump’s move to slashi NIH indirect cost ...

On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued supplemental guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates. The guidance declared that the indirect cost rate ...

On February 7, the NIH announced that it would begin capping indirect cost payments for new and existing research grants at 15%.

The suits were filed in rapid succession in the days after the NIH announced on Feb. 7 that it would cap so-called indirect costs at a 15% rate as of Feb. 10, leading the judge to issue a ...

The NIH announcement imposes a cap of 15% on the amount of that universities can charge for indirect costs –- often called “overhead” – on federal grants received for medical research.

Judge Angel Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on March 12, 2025, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction ...

Indirect costs include lab construction, research equipment and hazardous waste removal. Lowering caps on indirect costs could lead to fewer graduate program positions. Multiple states are ...