The National Institutes of Health announced Friday that it will impose a 15% cap on payment for the “indirect costs” on grants it awards to universities, starting Monday.

The fees, which cover overhead costs, add an average of 27 percent to the cost of a grant but vary considerably. The Trump administration says some large research institutions, such as Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins,

Virginia research universities are poised to lose millions in federal funding under a new National Institutes of Health policy that would cap the agency's reimbursement rate for these schools' administrative costs.