A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction on March 5, blocking the Trump administration from instituting funding cuts for administrative costs associated with research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley’s ruling follows a request from 22 Democratic state attorneys general and groups representing universities and medical schools who argued the NIH funding cuts were unlawful and would lead to layoffs, lab closures, and disruption in scientific and medical research.
On Feb. 7, the NIH decreased the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15 percent, a drop from a previous average of 27–28 percent….