Just looked at the White House's proposed HHS budget for 2011, and it seems like the NIH budget will increase from $30.8 billion to $32.1 billion, with over six billion spent on cancer (are you listening Orac?). Other civilian research agencies will be getting bigger increases (Intelligent Designer knows they need it)
I'm feeling hopey and changey!
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From the Federation of American Scientists for Experimental Biology (for all you non-biologists who are wondering who FASEB is):
Urge Congress to Support Research
Increase for NIH and NSF Depends On It!
ACTION REQUIRED NOW! The 2 Most Important Weeks for NIH and NSF Funding in FY2008
Dear FASEB…
Bush and the Democratic Congress are still battling over the budget, although it is said they are getting closer. Getting closer to Bush unfortunately means giving him all the bombs and bullets he wants but not much else. A case in point is the latest proposal for the NIH and CDC budgets:
Over the…
The American Physical Society just woke up to the budget threat...
To cut a long story short, the US Government has no budget for 2010-2011.
It has been operating under a continuous resolution since Oct 1, and this expires in March.
The House, which originated budget resolutions, generally, wants…
Sure, there were some nice parts in Obama's State of the Union speech. But this part is the equivalent of flat-eartherism and creationism (italics mine):
Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years. Spending related to our national security, Medicare, Medicaid,…
Am I listening? Hell, I just submitted an R01, am working on an R21 for the Feb. 16 deadline, and plan on submitting another R01 in June and my competing renewal on my present R01 in July, while our cancer center has to submit its competitive renewal for its core grant in September.
4.2% hopey and changey?
This is a very informative post for all of us but the 5-year doubling of the NIH budget represents a bold policy decision to reset the level of public investment in biomedical research. The authors propose 6 principles to guide NIH spending in coming years that would protect that investment by balancing support for new research with respect for prior commitments and national research capacity.