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

Calling the cuts "arbitrary and capricious," 22 states sued the Trump administration Feb. 10 – the day they were set to take effect – with lawsuits following from the Associat ...

On February 7, the NIH announced that it would begin capping indirect cost payments for new and existing research grants at 15%.

Cost-cutting at the National Institutes of Health could leave the university on the hook for millions previously paid by the ...

Louisiana universities could lose tens of millions of dollars in federal funding under a proposed slash in National ...

Researchers have been "making great inroads" in precision medicine, and a 15 percent cap on indirect costs could quash the ...

People often see this as administrative bloat. It is a reimbursement for costs already incurred by universities to support the research infrastructure at the university. And people don’t necessarily ...

The sudden policy change is that the NIH is to cap indirect cost recovery at 15 percent of the direct costs of a grant, ...

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

The National Institutes of Health announced on Friday that it would be capping a type of funding for medical research at hospitals, universities, medical schools and other scientific institutions in ...

Universities and hospitals are among the institutions that would need to cut their budget under proposed changes to how ...

What do National Institutes of Health funding cuts mean for universities? We ask Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal ...