Levka on Nostr: #NIH #research #science "In a Friday night move that quickly drew howls of protest ...
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"In a Friday night move that quickly drew howls of protest from the U.S. biomedical research community, President Donald Trump’s administration today announced it is immediately reducing by at least half the so-called indirect cost payments that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) makes to universities, hospitals, and research institutes to help cover facilities and administrative costs.
A 15% indirect cost rate will now apply to all new and existing grants, NIH said in a memo from its Director’s office. Typically, about 30% of an average NIH grant to an institution is earmarked for indirect costs, according to NIH, but some universities get much higher rates. In 2023, NIH, the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, spent nearly $9 billion on indirect costs; the change would likely leave research institutions needing to find billions of dollars from other sources to support laboratories, students, and staff.
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The abrupt change represents 'a nuclear bomb on university budgets,' says Morgan Polikoff, an education researcher at the University of Southern California. 'I mean, listen, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. They're just trying to hurt universities.'
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-slashes-overhead-payments-research-sparking-outrage
"In a Friday night move that quickly drew howls of protest from the U.S. biomedical research community, President Donald Trump’s administration today announced it is immediately reducing by at least half the so-called indirect cost payments that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) makes to universities, hospitals, and research institutes to help cover facilities and administrative costs.
A 15% indirect cost rate will now apply to all new and existing grants, NIH said in a memo from its Director’s office. Typically, about 30% of an average NIH grant to an institution is earmarked for indirect costs, according to NIH, but some universities get much higher rates. In 2023, NIH, the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, spent nearly $9 billion on indirect costs; the change would likely leave research institutions needing to find billions of dollars from other sources to support laboratories, students, and staff.
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The abrupt change represents 'a nuclear bomb on university budgets,' says Morgan Polikoff, an education researcher at the University of Southern California. 'I mean, listen, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. They're just trying to hurt universities.'
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-slashes-overhead-payments-research-sparking-outrage