The 2022 report includes an analysis of 82 universities, the indirect cost rate they receive from federal scholarships, the indirect cost rate they receive from private sector financiers such as the Sloan Foundation, the Gatees Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg initiative. Ten schools in the Heritage Foundation analysis did not confirm their indirect cost rates for private financiers, leaving 72 full posts in the report analysis.
Among those 72 universities, the report claimed that 67 scholarships are acceptable for private research with the coverage of the indirect research cost zero percent – the same analysis and its creation as in the national health institutes notification.
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The Heritage Corporation’s report concluded that only three schools in the sample refuse to accept indirect cost rates from institutions at prices lower than those they negotiated with the federal government. These schools are Alabama University in Birmingham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michigan University.
The national health institutes notification indicates the same three schools without identifying the Heritage Foundation as a source of analysis. It is noteworthy that Harvard University requires coverage of at least 15 percent of the indirect cost of funders from the private sector and that the California Institute of Technology requires an indirect cost coverage by 20 percent. These examples also appear in the Heritage Foundation report.
One of the reporters of the report, the research colleague, Jay Green, says that he did not participate in formulating the notice of the national health institutes, but he admitted that one paragraph of the national health institutes “seems to be a reference to our 2022 report.” The National Health Institutes did not respond to the WIRED request for comments.
A plan to reduce indirect cost rates also appears in the Federal Scholarships in the 2025 project, which is almost a policy of the Heritage Foundation Policy for nearly a thousand pages for Trump’s second presidency. “This market -based reform will help reduce federal taxpayers’ support for the left -wing business schedule,” says the report. During his presidential campaign, Trump has constantly implemented any links to the Heritage Foundation and the project 2025.
On Monday, a An alliance of 22 states A lawsuit has been filed to challenge the legitimacy of the National Institutes of Health to reduce indirect costs.
Universities say the cover will hinder their ability to conduct vital research. He wrote, “Discovering new, slow treatments, will reduce the chances of training the next generation of scientific leaders, and will be at risk of science and engineering in our nation.” President of Harvard University Alan Garper is in a post on the university’s website.
Some universities will lose more than $ 100 million in federal financing if the new grant ceiling is preserved. According to To statWeill Cornell Medicine brought $ 107 million of indirect costs during 2022 – a number that decreases to $ 23 million if the rate is 15 percent.