Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding

A limit of 15% of grants awarded to research insitutions will be allowed for associated costs such as buildings, equipment and support staff. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in medical research funding for universities, hospitals and other scientific institutions by reducing the amount they get in associated costs to support such research.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said that it was reducing the amount of “indirect” medical research funding going to institutions, which will cut spending by $4bn a year.