Many, including prominent scientists, seem to misunderstand the true cost of biomedical research and the fact that ...

NIH officials said they were given no advanced warning and less than an hour to post the memo publicly.

Universities and colleges built budgets around federal largess. The Trump administration is forcing them to take a fiscal ...

The National Institutes of Health’s Office of the Director issued a policy change notice Feb. 7, announcing that the standard ...

The sudden policy change is that the NIH is to cap indirect cost recovery at 15 percent of the direct costs of a grant, ...

It costs money to maintain the various facilities, utilities and personnel that allow scientists to conduct research in the ...

“It is not possible to perform the research funded by direct costs without the infrastructure supported by indirect costs,” said Eric W. Kaler, PhD. On February 10, a group of 22 state attorneys ...

Funding for basic research is efficient by this very strict definition. Multiple studies ... for specific projects—and indirect costs, which it calculates as a percentage of the direct costs. Indirect ...

Now is the time to defend the research partnership that has done so much for our nation and the world, and that can do even ...

The NIH said it will cap the indirect cost rate, which is for infrastructure costs such as facilities, maintenance, and security, at 15%.

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