⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
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Using Harvard Medical School:
NIH reporter shows $171M to HMS in FY2024 (https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2024&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=3212902&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid=&view=state)
Current HMS indirect are ~70% (https://osp.finance.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/office-for-sponsored-programs/files/harvard_medical_school_rate_agreement_2024.pdf?m=1721143495)
HMS revenue is 35% grants: https://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/facts-figures/financial-report
~5% budget cut (please correct me)
New system - 15% rate.
Expected immediate funding decrease of $4.5B
However, due to the $4.5B reduction in funding there will be a negative flow on effect across all research
This will result in a reduction in funded work /2
The reduction in indirect funding will therefore reduce global NIH indirect funding by approximately $10B - one third of current research
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-plan-reduce-overhead-payments-draws-fire#:~:text=The%20base%20rate%20for%20NIH,student%20tuition%20don't%20qualify.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/us/politics/national-institutes-of-health-budget-trump.html
https://bsky.app/profile/mpolikoff.bsky.social/post/3lhmpzhjpds24
Now that money is on the line, maybe they will bestir themselves.
I’ll be glad to see the lead administrator of my university kicked out on his ass. Later.
They need step down and get out the of the way now TODAY.
They have failed you.
They have lost all legitimacy.
DEMAND BETTER.
Pharma/Biotech stand silent while Putin's guys Elon & Trump rape America. Their silence makes them complicit!
#MedSky #NIH #FDA #CDC #USAID
I read that to mean anything not charged by Monday on existing grants is subject to new rate.
https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-state/
Jfc
https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-state/
Right now I am LIVID at Republicans for fucking the USA.
🤔🤔🤔
Even 10% would be too high.
Whoever wrote this knows what they are doing.
Just so dumb.
This is the P 2025 side of Trump world.
We’d bet a lot of money that a bunch of rightwing legal shops already have draft reply briefs written for this.
I think the best case scenario is only having layoffs in OSP. I don’t see a way to make up revenue— tuition isn’t going to do it (not w/ demographic & loan changes coming), donors set conditions restricting use, state funding is non-starter.
https://www.rdworldonline.com/nsf-layoffs-in-2025-deep-budget-cuts-headed-for-u-s-research-sector/
Silence the intelligencia
Until they start pushing eugenics. They will.
https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3lhmtolcc6s2c
Meanwhile, the President is worried about the trade deficit and his tariff plans.
I need to learn the Canadian national anthem.