United for Medical Research

Feb 27, 2015

UMR, ITIF Outline Strategies to Make NIH Funding More Predictable

Two advocacy groups argued in a new report for changes to how the US National Institutes of Health is funded.

Dec 10, 2014

Congress Proposes $30.3B in 2015 Funding for NIH

The 2015 Omnibus Appropriations bill requests a $150 million increase in funding to NIH for the current fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1.

Mar 04, 2014

White House Budget Proposes Small Increase at NIH

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The 2015 federal budget proposal that the Obama Administration released today seeks a marginal increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health — an increase of nearly one percent — to $30.36 billion from $30.15 billion in FY 2014, according to the US Departme

Dec 11, 2013

Budget Cuts Hit Home; Researchers Share Stories of Staff Cuts, Delayed Science

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Advocates for federal spending on biomedical research want to put a face on the pain inflicted by the long-term budget cuts and the recent sequestration that have struck the National Institutes of Health.

Jun 12, 2013

Genome Project, Related Federal Investments Reap 'Massive Bang' for Buck: Report

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The US investment in the Human Genome Project and the ensuing federal funding for genome science has reaped massive economic benefits, with nearly a trillion dollars having been returned on these investments, according to a new study from the R&D analysis organizat

Jun 13, 2012

Senate Subcommittee Approves NIH Budget Matching Obama's Proposal

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A key US Senate subcommittee yesterday approved a spending bill for fiscal 2013 that would provide $30.7 billion to the National Institutes of Health, a marginal increase of around $100 million compared with the funding for the current fiscal year.

Mar 20, 2012

Report: NIH's 2011 Funds Supported $62.1B in Economic Activity

By Matt Jones

May 11, 2011

Biomed Funding Supporters Cite NIH as Jobs Creator

NIH funded 487,900 jobs in 2010 and generated $68 billion in economic activity, a coalition of public and private partners said in a new report.

Breaking News

The Scan

Same Old Error

The Washington Post reports that the CDC's SARS-CoV-2 test issues reflect earlier ones it had with Zika virus testing.

Own Merits

NPR writes that even with thousands of new COVID-19 papers, each should be evaluated based on its own quality.

Back to Neanderthals

Researchers traced a gene cluster linked to COVID-19 severity to Neanderthals, the New York Times reports.

PNAS Papers on Small Molecule From Soil Bacteria, Circulating Tumor Cell Chip, More

In PNAS this week: soil bacteria-derived small molecules affect centrosomal protein, microfluidics approach for capturing circulating tumor cells, and more.

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