In February, MIT joined Brandeis University and Tufts University, among over a dozen institutions suing the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services after the agency’s efforts to slash indirect costs at grant-receiving institutions.

The proposed cuts would “erode our nation’s enviable status as a global leader in scientific research and innovation,” the plaintiffs said.

Major U.S. universities have filed a lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump's administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal research funding provided to academic institutions by the National Science Foundation.