19/02/2025
OPINION || The National Institute of Health, a global leader in medical research, announced that they would be cutting research grants to universities, specifically the indirect cost rate to just 15% due to a rule change prompted by the Trump administration, according to their policy statement released on Friday, Feb. 7. The indirect cost rate is the percentage of a research grant that can be allocated to indirect costs like equipment, operations and maintenance. This new rate is a dramatic decrease from the University of Connecticut’s current negotiated rate of 61% and UConn Health’s rate of 66.5%, as reported by UConn Today.
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The National Institute of Health, a global leader in medical research, announced that they would be cutting research grants to universities, specifically the indirect cost rate to just 15% due to a…