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Obsessed with the intersections between math, cats, people, and purpose. Based in Baltimore, MD.

Alt Text: A table comparing research budgets for an NIH R01 grant (Lab-based) and a Private Foundation grant (Lab-based and Foreign). It breaks down costs into categories like personnel, supplies, travel, tuition, equipment, subawards, and indirect costs (F&A). Key differences: • NIH R01: Applies a 50% F&A rate on Modified Total Direct Costs (MTDC), leading to $360,000 in indirect costs and a total budget of $1,400,000. • Private Foundation: Applies a 10% F&A rate on the total budget, but allows costs like project managers, facilities, and IT as direct expenses. F&A is $126,000, with a total budget of $1,386,000. • NIH’s F&A and similar costs make up 25.7% of the budget, while the Private Foundation model results in 21.7%, largely due to different cost classifications. This highlights how NIH’s indirect cost rate reduction to 15% could impact institutions, as they cannot classify lab, IT, and data costs as direct expenses like private foundations do.