The Boston Globe

NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science

This is an excerpt of an article from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. For a full version of this story, visit STAT. The National Institutes of Health, the nation ...
Forbes

New NIH ‘Indirect Costs’ Funding Cuts Threaten Universities, Science

Is this the end of the world as universities and similar research institutions in the U.S. know it? Well, they probably don’t feel fine after the National Institutes of Health announced on Friday ...
Medicine Buffalo

Changes to Indirect Cost Rate Percentage

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a grants policy statement regarding a change in indirect cost rates due to a recent executive order. The NIH is implementing a standardized 15% ...
The Boston Globe

What are ‘indirect costs,’ the money the NIH is trying to slash from science research?

Since 1947, the federal government has provided research institutions with funding for administrative and facilities costs such as rent, heating, and electricity in addition to direct costs for ...
Forbes

What The NIH Cut To Indirect Cost Payments Could Cost Red States

A new estimate reveals how much a proposed cap on NIH grants would cost each state. The fallout over the Trump administration’s imposition of a cap on National Institutes of Health payments for ...
ucdavis.edu

Direct vs. Indirect Costs: Federal Research Funding Explained

Funding direct costs supports the expenses that can be specifically identified with a particular project such as researchers, supplies and travel. Funding indirect costs supports the critical ...
JD Supra

Government Contracts Cost and Pricing: Allocation of Direct and Indirect Costs

Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government contractors. This is the second article in a multi-part ...
JD Supra

Can the NIH Cap Indirect Cost Rates at 15%?

Note: This post was updated with new information on February 13, 2025. On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued Supplemental Guidance to its 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement, ...
Case Western Reserve University

Update on proposed NIH indirect cost rates: March 6, 2025

To the Case Western Reserve University community, Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelly issued a nationwide preliminary injunction that prohibits the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...
Inside Higher Ed

Defense Department Caps Indirect Research Cost Rates for Universities

The Department of Defense is planning to cap indirect cost reimbursement rates for higher education institutions at 15 percent, according to a May 14 memo signed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. ...
The Chronicle

Duke, national groups back new research funding model amid indirect cost cap litigation

Federal agencies have proposed sharp limits on how much universities can recover in indirect costs for federally funded research — a move that could cost Duke more than $200 million annually and has ...