On February 8, 2024, the National Institutes of Health at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s cellular and molecular treatment laboratory, a laboratory studying for skilled cell disease, MD on February 8, 2024.
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The National Institute of Health is using a significant kind of financial support for medical research at universities, medical schools, research hospitals and other scientific institutions.
I The latest step According to the Trump administration that affects scientific research, the NIH says the agency is limiting funding for “indirect costs” to 15 % grant. It is very low that many companies are getting to maintain buildings and equipment and pay for auxiliary staff and other overhead costs. For example, according to NIH, Harvard gets 68 % and Yale 67 %.
The NIH says the new policy, which indicates a major change in funding to the agency’s research, is in accordance with the payment of private grounds.
NIH announced on Friday, saying in a notification, “Most private foundations that provide fundamental costs significantly lower than the federal government, and universities easily accept grants from these grounds. Do. “
“Although it is realized that recipients, especially ‘new or inexperienced organizations’, use grant funds to meet indirect costs such as overheads … to take advantage of and improve taxpayers to NIH The Carefully is responsible for the Steward Grant Awards to benefit taxpayers.
The NIH says the change will apply to both the current and future grants, and even suggests that the new policy will be applied. But in response to Saturday’s questions, the Department of Health and Human Services, which monitors NIH, told the NPR that while HHS has the power to “back down these changes for the current grant and before that.” They require grants to return the additional overhead received extra -headed, “officials have chosen not to do so to reduce the implementation of the new rate.” But “We will continue to review the choice of this policy and is it in the best interest of US taxpayers.”
The agency says more than 300,000 researchers in more than 2,500 universities, medical schools and other research institutes in the United States spent more than $ 35 billion in 2023 fiscal year on about 50,000 grants. This includes Billion 9 billion for indirect costs.
The new policy, which is implemented on Monday, is being condemned by many researchers.
“This is a sure way to disability life -saving research and innovation,” Matt OunusPresident of the Council for Government Relations, the Association for Research Universities and Educational Medical Centers, said in a statement. “Payment and management costs are part of the total cost of conducting world -class research.”
Owens says his organization “is closely reviewing the change of policy as it contradicts the current law and policy.”
“US rivals will enjoy the suffering wounds,” says Owns, “We urge NIH leaders to recover this dangerous policy before Americans feel its losses.”
Other medical researchers echoed these emotions.
“We’re all railing,” Dr. George DailyDean of Harvard Medical School wrote to the NPR in an email. “This will end medical research.”
This announcement has been made that many researchers are already upset because other steps taken by the new administration include NIH and other federal health agencies banning communication and travel and freezing some research grants.
