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...State of the Union speech last January, Nixon asked Congress to increase its cancer-research budget of $232 million by $100 million. But, contrary to the Senate subcommittee's proposal, the Administration urged that any cancer-cure program be kept within the existing structure of the NIH...
...exploit many of its important findings. Last year Mrs. Lasker picked up some powerful support in Congress when a special commission put forth her favorite proposal: a $6 billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation of a new, NASA-type National Cancer Authority outside the NIH to oversee the search for a cure. Senator Edward Kennedy, who succeeded Texas' Ralph Yarborough as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on health, put his own imprimatur on the commission's proposal and submitted the recommendations as legislation...
HEALTH MANPOWER AND RESEARCH. The National Institutes of Health got an extra $98 million from Congress. Sixteen million dollars of that was earmarked for programs to increase the supply of doctors, nurses and medical technicians; $56 million was tacked on to the NIH budget for medical research...
...have asked the NSF [National Science Foundation], the NIH [National Institute of Health], and two private foundations for money. They all told us that they didn't have funds of the order of magnitude that we needed...
Markert told the News that a friend in the NIH had nominated him for a panel and that he had been rejected as a security risk. Normally, scientists do not know when they are nominated for NIH or HEW positions and therefore cannot know if they have been blackballed...