Congress boosts NIH budget 17.3%. (National Institutes of Health)Culliton, Barbara J
limits.Evenwiththeoveralldecreaseinfunding,CongressdirectedFY2024increasestocertainresearchareaswithinNIH accountsthroughaccompanyingreportlanguage,forexample,forAlzheimer’sdiseaseandrelateddementiasandformental health. TheFY2025budgetrequestproposesanNIHandARPA-Hprogramlevelof$50.174billion,anincreaseof$1.363billion (+...
The spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Obama will increase the NIH budget by $2 billion.Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON — Congress easily approved a federal spending bill Friday with the biggest funding increase for the National Institutes of Health in 12 years — the final hur...
Along party lines, Congress has voted big increases for defense research, particularly for anti-missile programs, raising the Pentagon's R&D budget by 8 percent, to $37.5 billion out of total federal R&D spending of $73 billion. Criticizing the missile program as premature and a threat to the...
said at a hearing wednesday on nih’s budget requests. bertagnolli’s work at the cancer institute has included a plan to reduce cancer deaths and achieve president joe biden’s “moonshot” initiative, which aims to cut the u.s. cancer death rate by at least 50% over...
As all of us in the 112th Congress are facing difficult funding decisions, we must remember the fruits of our past investment in life sciences and the benefits that future investment will have on our communities. Congress has a moral responsibility to give NIH researchers the resources they need...
“Congress has not thoroughly reviewed NIH operations and practices since the 21st Century Cures Act passed in 2016,” he said in a release. Cassidy wants NIH to: — Maintain a balanced research portfolio, so that funding does not favor late-stage research at the expense of early-stage resear...
to provide more comfort to people who were worried about whether they were going to be able to keep going or not. And that was a testimony really to the Congress. It’s really important that the administration supports science, but it’s the Congress who really decides what the budget is...
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“[Those agencies] need to be as robustly funded in terms of what they think is necessary as you’d fund the American military,” the Oklahoma Republican said. Funding at the NIH, which has been abipartisan prioritydespite the added complication of budget caps, would grow by $1.1 billion ...