The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday made a significant reduction in grants reserved for research institutions, a decision that may significantly impact American higher education.

“Without relief from NIH’s action, these institutions’ cutting-edge work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt.” The NIH is the primary source of federal funding for medical ...

Applications for a prestigious National Institutes of Health grant program that supports Ph.D. students from marginalized backgrounds are abruptly being pulled from consideration during grant ...

“The United States should have the best medical research in the world,” NIH said in its announcement. “It is accordingly vital to ensure that as many funds as possible go towards direct ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will resume important meetings and travel associated with the critical grant-review process amid an agency-wide communications freeze at the Department of ...

A clinical trial supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is testing an experimental treatment designed to help people suffering the effects of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease.

Late Friday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said it would set a 15 percent cap on payments for indirect costs — which are administrative and facility costs linked to research ...

The big losers would include prestigious institutions in conservative states. The NIH, the nation’s top funder of biomedical research, announced on Friday that it would substantially limit ...

The average NIH grant to an institution has typically had about 30% earmarked for infrastructure costs such as facilities, maintenance and security; some institutions charged up to 60% or more.

Among the work the NIH supports in the state, a University of West Florida researcher is studying early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, a Florida State University team was awarded $3.4 million ...

NIH announces it’s slashing funding for indirect research costs, raising concerns for universities and medical centers. NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard has more details.

The shift would free more than $4 billion to pay for science, Nixon said, adding that last year about a quarter of the more than $35 billion awarded in NIH research grants went to indirect costs.