An ambiguous line in the preview of President Donald Trump’s first proposed budget indicates the NIH may cover fewer indirect research costs in the future.
The budget blueprint released March 16 said in a paragraph on the National Institutes of Health: “The Budget also reduces administrative costs and rebalance[s] Federal contributions to research funding.”
“This probably reflects a proposal to reduce or suppress IDC [indirect cost] rates among NIH and other funding agency grantees,” Mark Barnes, a research attorney at Ropes & Gray LLP and Bloomberg BNA health-care advisory board member, said in a March ...
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