Indirect Costs, also known as Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A) or overhead, are institutional costs that are not specifically allocable to individual sponsored projects but are real costs ...

A group of higher education associations is floating changes to the federal government’s model for reimbursing research ...

Knowing the difference between direct and indirect costs is important for pricing, taxes, and financial health. See how these expenses differ and why it matters.

After two decades of work in biomedical research policy, there is no topic Carrie Wolinetz hates talking about more than indirect costs. She’s addressing them now because they are crucial.

The Trump administration’s decision to cap how much NIH will pay for indirect costs on university research grants would cost 10 red states more than $1 billion.

The average indirect cost rate has averaged between 27% and 28%. Johns Hopkins received 63.7% in indirect costs, NIH said . The University of Michigan receives 56% in indirect costs, it said.

Thirteen research universities have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop NSF from capping the indirect research costs it pays to universities on grants from the agency.

These items are not included as indirect costs, but it could still mean a large loss in revenue for St. Jude. Over the past five years, St. Jude has annually received over $100 million from the NIH.

For that, taxpayers shelled out a hair more than $495,000, of which about $168,000 was for “indirect” costs, which supposedly cover Havard’s overhead to undergird Janiak’s research.