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.

Brown, along with 12 other universities, filed a lawsuit against the National Science Foundation seeking to stop indirect funding cuts for federally financed research. The suit was filed alongside the Association of American Universities, the American Council on Education and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.

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