A federal judge has halted the National Institutes of Health’s overhead-funding cap after 22 states sued the agency, saying that “work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt” because of the move.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, came on the heels of a Friday-night memo announcing that the NIH would limit indirect-cost funding to 15 percent, approximately half of the average rate it previously offered. The states were seeking an injunction on the policy, which was to take effect Monday.
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