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Congress is currently considering President George W. Bush's budget proposal, which recommended the same level of NIH funding as the year before, a real-dollar decline once inflation is taken into account...
Casey said he expected a group of senators, including Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, who chairs the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions that Faust is addressing, to propose an amendment this week to increase NIH funding by $1.8 to $2 billion, or more than six percent increase over the current year's budget...
...Ultimately, we're hoping the next president—whoever that might be—will adopt restoring funding for NIH to a reasonable predictable growth path as a priority," Casey said. "We look for progress to be made, but we don't look for it to be accomplished overnight...
University President Drew G. Faust spoke in favor of increasing federal funding for biomedical research before a U.S. Senate committee yesterday.Faust’s testimony capped a Harvard-led effort to reverse a recent real-dollar decline in research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Working as part of a larger consortium of universities, Harvard spearheaded the lobbying push, which began with a report and congressional appearances last spring.Yesterday’s testimony, as well as a second report, ”A Broken Pipeline?,” released at a press conference immediately preceding...
...While the scientists said that U.S. researchers have made enormous strides in unlocking the secrets of human health and disease, they said that this progress may come to a grinding halt in the wake of stagnant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). And not only is flat funding taking a toll on research, but it’s also affecting the careers of younger scientists, according to a new report released yesterday by Harvard and the six other research institutions...