NIH Grants Policy

NIH Grants Policy Statement - External link

NIH Grants Policy Statement - The National Institutes of Health Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS) is intended to make available to NIH grantees, in a single document, the policy requirements that serve as the terms and conditions of NIH grant awards. This document also is designed to be useful to those interested in NIH grants by providing information about NIH—its organization, its staff, and its grants process.

NIH provides Facilities and Administrative Costs F&A costs or "indirect costs" 

 With the exception of the American University of Beirut and the World Health Organization, which are eligible for full F&A cost reimbursement, F&A costs under grants to foreign and international organizations will be funded at a rate of 8 % of modified total direct costs, exclusive of expenditures for equipment. NIH provides F&A costs under these grants to support the costs of compliance with applicable public policy requirements including, but not limited to, the protection of human subjects, animal welfare, financial conflict of interest, and invention reporting. NIH will not support the acquisition of or provide for depreciation on any capital expenses (facilities) or the normal general operations of foreign and international organizations. Awards to domestic organizations with a foreign or international consortium participant may include 8 percent of modified total direct costs, less equipment, for the consortium.