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16 hours ago · The National Institutes of Health says the cuts will save more than $4 billion a year, but critics say it puts potentially lifesaving research in jeopardy. Latest U.S.

3 days ago · On Friday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that negotiated rates were ending. Every existing grant, and all those funded in the future, will see the indirect cost rate set to ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The historic main building of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Grandbrothers/iStock Editorial/Getty Images hide caption

3 days ago · 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.

3 days ago · The National Institutes of Health, which announced the move Friday evening, said $9 billion of $35 billion — or about 26 percent — of grant dollars distributed last year had gone to overhead.