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.

A memo released late on Friday announced that the NIH would limit indirect-cost funding to 15 percent, approximately half of the average rate it previously offered.

For years, limitations on indirect cost rates varied among government agencies; before 1955, the NIH limited its rate to 8 percent, according to the National Science Foundation.

If the sponsor does not have a policy limiting Indirect Costs (IDC/F&A) and the Principal Investigator (PI) requests reduced IDC for a budget, CU Boulder requires an Indirect Cost Reduction or Waiver ...

The US National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists ...

A federal judge in Boston has rescinded the National Science Foundation’s new 15% cap on reimbursement of facility and administrative costs (F&A)—called indirect expenses—related to research ...

In an X post, the NIH said it will cap the indirect cost rate, which is for infrastructure costs such as facilities, maintenance, and security, at 15% for all the universities it gives grants to.

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To the Case Western Reserve community: Late Friday afternoon, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a notice titled “Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect ...

The indirect costs of doing research are real and substantial. Beyond the sorts of facilities and staffing needs faced by any other organization, biomedical research generates a regular flow of ...

They argue that “the Rate Cap Policy exceeds NSF’s statutory authority by reimposing, in more severe form, a categorical cap on indirect costs that Congress specifically eliminated in 1965 and ...

Harvard’s indirect cost rate — the percent of federal funding that covers administrative costs of research — is currently 69 percent, the largest of any Ivy League school.