NIH’s acting director announced Feb. 7 that instead of negotiating a rate for indirect costs with each institution, it will implement a standard rate of 15 percent on top of the amount paid for ...

The proposed 15% cap for indirect costs is almost half the average NIH indirect cost rate reported over recent years, which was 27–29%, but extended beyond 50% for some institutes. The variation here ...

Each research project may have different indirect costs, experts say. For fiscal year 2023, NIH spent more than $35 billion in about 50,000 grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than ...

Michigan is suing the National Institutes of Health over changes to NIH’s grant policy.The new guidance, which took effect Monday, limits the reimbursement rate for indirect costs related to ...

Some lawmakers and the Trump administration have criticized the government’s long-standing model for reimbursing universities ...

The new policy would put a cap of 15% of grants being spent on those indirect costs. NIH spent $35 billion in fiscal year 2023 on 50,000 grants to 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 medical ...

Because indirect cost rates with the NIH typically land between 30% and 70%, the step in effect would cut billions in funding that go to institutions. Universities individually negotiate their ...

The 'Indirect Costs' of NIH Research . McKenzie Prillaman & Alex Viveros ScienceNews February 17, 2025 AP Pamela Canaday loves her job. For the last 20 years, she has been supporting biomedical ...

The new model comes as universities brace for a proposed 15-percent limit on indirect costs that would cost them billions of ...

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya faced critical questions from both Republican and Democratic senators Tuesday as he sought to defend the Trump administration’s sweeping ...