Kennedy Jr. ended a longstanding transparency rule on Friday, supercharging his authority to change policies in areas ranging from Medicaid to the National Institutes of Health without advance notice to the public.

Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

The fees, which cover overhead costs, add an average of 27 percent to the cost of a grant but vary considerably. The Trump administration says some large research institutions, such as Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins,

The 2024 rankings of the leading research institutions for total NIH funding are now available. Once again, Johns Hopkins University leads all institutions.

The Trump administration wants to cap NIH funding for indirect costs associated with medical research to a set 15 percent rate. The current rate at the University of Minnesota is 54 percent. The cap is not supposed to affect the research itself,

A research team led by the UCLA School of Dentistry has been awarded a $20.6 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish

U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley had issued a temporary restraining order earlier this month in response to separate lawsuits filed by a group of 22 states — including Massachusetts — plus organizations representing universities,

The Massachusetts governor is spreading the word about the damage these cutbacks would cause across many industries.

Iowa has the second highest incidence rate of cancer in the country, and it is already feeling Trump's cuts to the workforce and research institutions trying to solve the rural cancer problem.

Although currently blocked by a federal court, the policy would limit research funding from NIH for “indirect costs,” or overhead expenses, to 15%.

The bureaucratic bloat in federal research funding is finally facing a long-overdue reckoning, especially for indirect academic research funds. The

A decade ago this past June, my sister died at the National Institutes of Health. I still have faith in them, and I hope that the country does, too,” writes Ariel Reinish.