February 9, 2025
“Facilities and Administrative” costs are a very real part of conducting biomedical research. The recent administrative action to significantly cut funding for these costs will immediately result in less groundbreaking and lifesaving medical research. The longer-term consequences are even more detrimental, jeopardizing America’s health, economic prosperity, and standing as the world leader in biomedical innovation. UMR urges NIH to rescind this short-sighted supplemental guidance.
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UMR Resources
NIH’s Role in Sustaining the U.S. Economy (link)
State-specific data on NIH impact (link)
How Rural States Benefit from Strong NIH Funding (link)
Patient stories (link)
UMR is a coalition of leading research institutions, patient and health advocates and private industry seeking strong and sustainable increases in funding for the National Institutes of Health in order to save and improve lives, advance innovation and fuel the economy. Learn more at unitedformedicalresearch.org.