AAU President Barbara R. Snyder released the following statement on the National Institutes of Health’s announcement that it will cut reimbursement of research facilities and administrative costs for NIH grants.
“Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs – also referred to as “indirect costs” – are real and necessary costs of conducting the groundbreaking research that has led to countless breakthroughs in the past decades. A cut to F&A reimbursements for NIH grants is quite simply a cut to the life-saving medical research that helps countless American families.”
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