In the world of academic research, indirect costs are the unsung heroes. These expenses — covering everything from lab maintenance to administrative support — are essential for keeping the ...

The fallout over the Trump administration’s imposition of a cap on National Institutes of Health payments for indirect costs on university research grants is spreading as more people begin to ...

Wolinetz is chair of the health bioscience innovations practice at Lewis-Burke Associates and former chief of staff to the director of NIH. I’ve spent more than two decades of work in ...

“It is not possible to perform the research funded by direct costs without the infrastructure supported by indirect costs,” said Eric W. Kaler, PhD. On February 10, a group of 22 state ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a grants policy statement regarding a change in indirect cost rates due to a recent executive order. The NIH is implementing a standardized 15% ...

On Friday, the Trump Administration announced that it would cap the indirect cost rate for federal grants from the National Institutes of Health at fifteen percent. According to the Administration ...

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.

The NIH, the largest funder of biomedical research in the U.S., will limit funding for indirect costs to 15%. Indirect costs cover expenses like building maintenance and administrative salaries.