California, joined by 21 states, is suing the Trump administration over proposed cuts to NIH funding, significantly reducing indirect cost rates from 30% to 15%. This funding is essential for maintaining research facilities, paying support staff, and covering operational costs. With California's universities, including UC Berkeley, heavily reliant on this funding—receiving billions from NIH—the cuts threaten job losses, halted clinical trials, and disrupted research critical to addressing various health issues. UC President Michael Drake emphasized the dire implications for public health and scientific advancement.
This agency action will result in layoffs, suspension of clinical trials, disruption of ongoing research programs, and laboratory closures, the suit said.
A cut this size is nothing short of catastrophic for countless Americans who depend on UC's scientific advances to save lives and improve healthcare.
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