The National Institutes of Health is the largest funder of University of California research and UC received more than $2.6 billion in funding for the last academic year – accounting for more than

The funds, known as “indirect costs,” help universities maintain expensive labs and other infrastructure. Trump’s administration seeks to cut that funding by roughly half the current amount.

NIH announced that it was cutting indirect cost reimbursements at an across-the-board 15% rate, effective Monday.