27 Apr, 2026

Billions at stake as appeals court hears NIH arguments on indirect costs

Questions and comments from federal appeals court judges during a hearing Wednesday suggested they may be skeptical of some of the Trump administration’s central arguments in a lawsuit challenging its proposed changes to research overhead payments. The case centers on a multibillion-dollar question: Did the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s largest funder of biomedical […]

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