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发帖数: 61690 | 1 The 6.2% bump to $34 billion includes $352 million provided under the 21st
Century Cures Act, a measure to boost biomedical innovation that became law
in December 2016. It created a 10-year pot of money—to be used for specific
initiatives at NIH—that has a mandated funding stream that is not subject
to the annual appropriations process. The inclusion of the 21st Century
Cures funds means NIH’s base budget is only growing by $1.6 billion.
All the same, advocates for biomedical research, who have been deeply
worried by Trump’s budget plans for NIH, were thrilled. “It was worth the
7-month wait! We're extremely grateful” to the leaders of the House and
Senate committees that oversee NIH’s budget, says Jennifer Zeitzer,
director of legislative relations for the Federation of American Societies
for Experimental Biology in Bethesda, Maryland. A bill approved last summer
in the Senate would have boosted NIH by $2 billion and a House bill would
have raised the agency’s budget by $1.25 billion.
The final omnibus bill, which funds NIH through 30 September, raises
Alzheimer’s disease research by $400 million to $1.4 billion. Research on
antibiotic resistance goes up $50 million. The brain-mapping initiative
called Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies,
launched by former President Barack Obama, receives $120 million, including
$10 million from the Cures act. Another $160 million in new funding goes to
the Precision Medicine Initiative (including $40 million from Cures for its
1-million person cohort study). And $300 million from Cures tagged for the
National Cancer Institute is expected to fund former Vice President Joe
Biden’s moonshot initiative.
Biomedical research advocates are now girding for what could be a struggle
over NIH’s budget for the 2018 fiscal year, which begins 1 October. The
Trump administration wants to slash NIH spending by 18%, or $5.8 billion, in
large part by cutting overhead payments to universities. —Jocelyn Kaiser | T****i
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: The 6.2% bump to $34 billion includes $352 million provided under the 21st
: Century Cures Act, a measure to boost biomedical innovation that became law
: in December 2016. It created a 10-year pot of money—to be used for specific
: initiatives at NIH—that has a mandated funding stream that is not subject
: to the annual appropriations process. The inclusion of the 21st Century
: Cures funds means NIH’s base budget is only growing by $1.6 billion.
: All the same, advocates for biomedical research, who have been deeply
: worried by Trump’s budget plans for NIH, were thrilled. “It was worth the
: 7-month wait! We're extremely grateful” to the leaders of the House and
: Senate committees that oversee NIH’s budget, says Jennifer Zeitzer,
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