“In a Friday night move that quickly drew howls of protest from the U.S. biomedical research community, President Donald Trump’s administration today announced it is immediately reducing by at least half the so-called indirect cost payments that the National Institutes of Health makes to universities, hospitals, and research institutes to help cover facilities and administrative costs,” Science reports.
Washington Post: NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately.
New York Times: Deep cuts to medical research funds could hobble university budgets.
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