The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) decision to cap reimbursement for indirect costs on university research grants at 15% could have repercussions.
Universities could lose out on potentially hundreds of millions in funding to support medical research under a new Trump administration policy.
The NIH, the main funder of biomedical research, awarded more than 60,000 grants last year totaling about $35 billion. The total is divided into "direct" costs – covering researchers’ salaries and laboratory supplies – and “indirect” costs, the administrative and facility costs needed to support that work.
A federal judge on Friday again blocked the Trump administration's cuts in medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and delay new lifesaving studies.
Threats of federal funding cuts are already felt within research circles at UNC, including the labs of some leading cancer research.
A judge on Friday extended a temporary block of the Trump Administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding.
Medical researchers from universities and the National Institutes of Health rally near the Health and Human Services headquarters to protest federal budget cuts Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025 ...
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