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’s administration announced late Friday it is drastically reducing payments the National Institutes of Health makes to universities, hospitals, and institutes that help cover administrative costs, a move critics said will result in a “catastrophic” hit to science research across the country.
Federal NIH grants pay for a portion of the overhead costs required for institutions to conduct research, including construction, utility costs, and lab operation, known generally as “indirect costs,” in addition to the costs of the research itself. Typically, about 30% of an average NIH grant to an institution is earmarked for indirect costs, but some universities get much higher rates.
“Can you believe that universities with tens of billions in endowments were siphoning off 60% of research award money for ‘overhead’? What a ripoff!” billionaire Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency empowered by Trump to unilaterally slash federal spending, wrote Friday in athat Trump and Musk are seeking to gut the National Science Foundation and lay off half its staff, and that the president will soon issue an executive orderScientists and medical experts said the...
“This approach to suddenly cutting NIH grant indirect costs will cause chaos and harm biomedical research and researchers in hospitals, schools and institutes nationwide. A sane government would never do this,”F. Perry Wilson, an associate professor of medicine at Yale University. “This is cutting right to the bone. It will lead to mass layoffs at Academic research centers.
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