The federal government issued new guidelines for indirect cost recovery (also known as “Facilities and Administration” costs, or F&A) for all grants, present and future, awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Reduction of F&A funding will affect principal investigators whose research depends on the maintenance of facilities and the availability of services to continue their work.
Katherine S. Newman, the UC System Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, shared the University’s plans to understand the impact of this order and the actions it will take to contest it.
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