In announcing the new rate, the Trump administration cited examples of how some elite universities operated under the previous system, including two local ones, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration’s cuts to funding provided by National Institute of Health on Monday.

Scientists and medical experts said the move to effectively slash NIH grants will interrupt research across the country.

Massachusetts and 22 other states are suing the Trump administration to stop the feds from cutting National Institutes of Health funding. Why it matters: Harvard University and MIT alone rely on hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH funding to advance medical research.

A lawsuit has been filed against the Trump administration over its budget-cutting plans targeting medical research led by colleges and universities. Their allies warn of negative consequences for curing diseases,

California and 21 other states are suing the Trump administration over efforts to slash key funding universities use to conduct medical research. Last Friday, the National Institutes of Health issued a memo indicating that it would reduce “indirect cost rates to an across-the-board 15% rate.