In a move that has woken the biomedical research community, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Friday, ...

How Science, Students, And Colleges Will Suffer In the world of academic research, indirect costs are the unsung heroes.

The National Institutes of Health Feb. 7 issued supplemental guidance on updating negotiated indirect cost rates for new and ...

The NIH will immediately drop its rate of funding so-called indirect costs of research all the way down to 15% for everyone. Now, most people not in the game of getting research funding from ...

The drastic reduction in indirect costs is not a path to innovation or cost savings — it’s a threat to U.S.’s position as ...

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

A federal judge in Massachusetts has granted two temporary restraining orders blocking the recent decision by the US National ...

Note: This post was updated with new information on February 13, 2025. On February 7, the National Institutes of Health ...

National Institutes of Health slashed overhead costs allowed under its grants to match private foundations, but the two don't ...

Over the past few weeks, the Trump administration has introduced sweeping changes across the federal government that have impacted the federal ...

The US 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 ...

When a scientist receives a federal NIH grant for a project — say $500,000 per year — the institution that houses that scientist’s work receives an additional percentage for those indirect costs.