MADISON, Wis. (WRN) — Proposed changes to grant funding by the National Institutes for Health could have serious consequences for the Universities of Wisconsin.
A federal judge on Monday blocked the NIH’s announced 15% cap on indirect costs for all new and current grants. In a Monday ‘Newsmakers’ interview with WisconsinEye UW System President Jay Rothman talked about what those grants support.
“Just at Madison alone. Cancer research, research for Alzheimer’s Disease, research in diabetes,” Rothman said.
Rothman, with a private sector background, doesn’t think much of how the decision was announced
“This was not done in a businesslike fashion, in my humble opinion. You announce something on Friday night that goes effective on Monday morning. You don’t think about the unintended consequences of that. It doesn’t look like there was a whole lot of analysis that went into it,” he said.
NIH funding is the largest source of federal support for UW Madison and a significant source of federal support for UW Milwaukee.