US EditionNIH Implements Immediate $4 Billion Cut to Indirect Research Funding
- The US National Institutes of Health has lowered the indirect cost rate to 15%, effective immediately, which scientists warn could severely impact research funding.
- NIH funding totaled over $35 billion in Fiscal Year 2023, with $9 billion allocated to indirect costs, which are now drastically reduced.
- Experts, including Dr. Harlan Krumholz, argue that this policy threatens the infrastructure necessary for medical advancements and could lead to significant research cuts.
- Senator Patty Murray stated that the new indirect cost rate is illegal under the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill and warned it could devastate biomedical research.
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Research universities reel from ‘catastrophic’ Trump administration cut to NIH funding
WASHINGTON — Research universities and medical schools are grappling with how to implement a major change in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health that they warn could curtail breakthroughs or halt projects altogether, and that a senior Democrat in Congress called “nothing short of catastrophic.” The NIH announced Friday that it would cap “Facilities and Administrative” costs at 15%, a significant reduction for many institutions …
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