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.

The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding ... of leftist agendas.” Some outside analysts also praised NIH, saying that funding for researchers ...

“NIH spent more than $35 Billion in Fiscal Year 2023 on almost 50,000 competitive grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 universities, medical schools, and other research ...

The NIH announced Friday it would cap funding for "indirect costs" — mainly facilities and administration — at 15 percent for new and existing research awards, beginning Monday. Previously ...

A post on X from the agency regarding the change noted that, of the $35 billion NIH spent on research grants during the 2023 fiscal year, $9 billion went to indirect costs. The post noted that ...

Of that amount, about $26 billion went to direct costs for research, while $9 billion was allocated to overhead through NIH’s indirect cost rate. As a justification for the decision, NIH pointed ...

Without them, universities and research institutions simply cannot function at their full capacity. The NIH’s move to cut these rates represents an unfortunate attempt to reduce federal spending.

THE UNIVERSITY ISSUING THIS STATEMENT, QUOTE, THIS PROPOSED CHANGE TO NIH FUNDING UW MADISON’S LARGEST SOURCE OF FEDERAL SUPPORT, WILL SIGNIFICANTLY DISRUPT VITAL RESEARCH ACTIVITY AND DELAY ...