For these reasons, recipients with existing negotiated indirect cost rate agreements (NICRAs) – particularly NICRAs that will expire in the near future – should consider taking the following ...

Uncertainty over the NIH’s policy directive to unilaterally cap universities’ indirect cost reimbursement rates at 15 percent (down from an average negotiated rate of 28 percent) has thrown ...

Judge Kelley found that the Notice likely conflicts with existing regulation, which prescribes a process for deviation from Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreements (NICRAs) and requires ...

This week, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s plan to cut $4 billion in medical research funding. Scientists ...

Less-wealthy institutions may be particularly hard hit by the proposed reductions in funding for biomedical research.

The National Institutes of Heath, according to its recent statement on the funding caps, has historically negotiated "indirect" cost rates with grant recipients. Typically, those costs account for ...

Universities are protesting the Trump administration’s plan to limit the overhead, also known as indirect costs, covered by ...

Under prior policy, the government negotiated those rates with institutions. As an example, an institution with a 50% indirect cost rate would get another $50,000 to cover indirect expenses for a $100 ...