去年，美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)拨给研究的350亿美元中，有90亿美元用于行政管理费用，即所谓的“间接费用”。今天，NIH将研究机构向政府收取的最高间接费用率降低至15%，高于许多大型基金会允许的水平，远低于目前一些机构向政府收取的60%以上。这一变化将立即节省每年40多亿美元。
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above… pic.twitter.com/FSUYpEGKsr
— NIH (@NIH) February 7, 2025
