We have allowed up to 10% indirects for several years for our non-fellowship grants, 0% for fellowships. We have not yet decided on a change based on the current climate and I cannot guarantee what our board would authorize. I think it likely that we could shift to up to 15% if that became the norm, particularly for the non-seed grants.
We are not spending time yet on either benchmarking or deciding on a change, if any, until we see how things stabilize. With indirects as only one of many sources of disruption to the federal landscape, we are monitoring but waiting to decide how our very limited resources might be best used to mitigate the damage to the research that is important to our community.
Penny
Penny Dacks PhD
Senior Director, Scientific Initiatives, AFTD
President, FTD Disorders Registry