Becker's Healthcare March 18, 2025
Academic medical centers are reacting to the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to medical research grants that cap reimbursements for indirect costs at 15%. Here’s what to know.
1. Though the cuts were temporarily blocked March 5 by a judge in Massachusetts, institutions are already reeling from the proposed cuts.
“[National Institutes of Health] funding is frozen, it’s effectively frozen,” Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey told WBUR. “It’s not coming forward, even though there’s a court order. We have people who are shrinking their undergraduate programs and enrollment. We have people who are shrinking their PhD and postdoc programs. Research has been cut back.”
2. Reimbursements for overhead costs on medical research projects average about 27%. The Trump administration wants to cut...
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