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

On Friday, the NIH said it would make immediate cuts to indirect research costs, which support institutional overhead. The announcement sent researchers into a panic over the weekend.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday made a significant reduction in grants reserved for research institutions, a decision that may significantly impact American higher education.

Applications for a prestigious National Institutes of Health grant program that supports Ph.D. students from marginalized backgrounds are abruptly being pulled from consideration during grant ...

for example, could come with $50,000 in indirect costs, making the total grant $150,000. In fiscal 2023, out of $35 billion in awarded grants, $9 billion went to overhead, NIH said. In its ...

A federal judge in Boston has ordered a temporary pause nationwide on plans by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to substantially reduce “indirect” research payments to universities ...

The big losers would include prestigious institutions in conservative states. The NIH, the nation’s top funder of biomedical research, announced on Friday that it would substantially limit ...

There already are reports detailing how deep cuts at the NIH could curtail research into infectious diseases — a particularly disturbing development as bird flu spreads throughout the U.S. And ...

“Without relief from NIH’s action, these institutions’ cutting-edge work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt.” The NIH is the primary source of federal funding for medical ...

The average NIH grant to an institution has typically ... The Gates Foundation, for example, pays a 10% rate for indirect costs, while the Carnegie Corporation and John Templeton Foundation ...

In announcing the new rate, NIH cited examples of how some elite universities operated under the previous system, including two local ones, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

IT COMES IN RESPONSE TO THE NIH ANNOUNCEMENT THAT IT IS REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS GET FROM MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC GRANTS. CAMPBELL SAYS THE NIH ...