Indirect costs (Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs) are charged to externally sponsored awards, unless specifically prohibited by the funding agency. A percentage of indirect (F&A) costs ...

The NIH, the main funder of biomedical research, awarded about $35 billion in grants to research groups last year. The total is divided into “direct” costs – covering researchers’ salaries and ...

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On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued supplemental guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates. The guidance declared that the indirect cost rate ...

The NIH announcement imposes a cap of 15% on the amount of that universities can charge for indirect costs –- often called “overhead” – on federal grants received for medical research.

“Most private foundations that fund research provide substantially lower indirect costs than the federal government, and universities readily accept grants from these foundations,” the agency ...

Indirect costs include lab construction, research equipment and hazardous waste removal. Lowering caps on indirect costs could lead to fewer graduate program positions. Multiple states are ...

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the National Institutes of Health wouldn’t explicitly commit to reversing course on the federal agency’s controversial plan to cap reimbursements for the ...