The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.

The NIH projected the cut will save it $4 billion during the current federal fiscal year, which ends September 30. That’s nearly half of the $9 billion that the NIH said it set aside for overhead ...

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