NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage and lawsuit

Photo caption: The National Institutes of Health plans to severely cut the percentage of its grant money that can be used for overhead costs rather than research. NIH. Photo credit: Gibson Green / Alamy Stock Photo. Public Domain. Article by David Malakoff. Science – February 7, 2025.

Update, 10 February, 6 p.m.: In response to a lawsuit filed by 22 states, a federal judge today blocked NIH from imposing a new indirect costs payment rate of 15% on all new and existing grants. The judge has scheduled a 21 February hearing on the issue.

In a Friday night move that quickly drew howls of protest from the U.S. biomedical research community and a legal challenge, President Donald Trump’s administration announced it is immediately reducing by at least half the so-called indirect cost payments the National Institutes of Health (NIH) makes to […]

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