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

California and 21 other states are suing the Trump administration to stop the feds from cutting National Institutes of Health funding. Why it matters: The University of California and research institutions across the state rely on billions of dollars in NIH funding to advance medical research and treatments for cancer,

California and 21 other states are suing the Trump administration to stop it from slashing key funding universities rely on to conduct scientific research and discovery. Last Friday the National Institutes of Health issued a memo indicating that it would reduce the “indirect cost rates” that universities receive from the agency to 15%,