The current administration has proposed to cap indirect costs (which covers laboratory maintenance, equipment provision and salaries for support and administrative staff) at the National Institute for Health at 15%, from the current levels of 50%-70%, which will likely make many ongoing research projects impossible to continue in their current form.
My own mathematics department receives very little direct funding from the #nih; but already the mere *possibility* of such a drastic cap has impacted us; we have been unable to make a job offer to an outstanding candidate because the budget uncertainty created by this proposal has forced my university to close off almost all discretionary sources of funding for faculty hiring at all departments, regardless of their level of NIH support.
My university, as well as many others, are circulating a letter of support for NIH funding of biomedical research, for which the US is currently an international leader. The letter is available for anyone to sign at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agzz5mQgfEMpLlBhoE4ZyHdiTvdc9O84zF4vNEHyKTI/viewform?edit_requested=true
Terence Tao /
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