NIH
National Institutes of Health
After weeks of worrying about how in-mandatory budget map-2013 cuts known as sequestration will play the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the biomedical research community of the now final figures. The bottom line is as dark as expected: the overall budget of the agency will decrease by $ 1.71 billion compared to 2012, to $ 29.15 billion, a decline of about 5%, according to an NIH review today ' hui. That's basically what the NIH predicted within the 5.1% sequestration. (Including transfers to other organizations and other adjustments in the bill on spending NIH funding in 2013, the total reduction of $ 1.71 billion or 5.5% compared to 2012 ).
Accordingly, NIH plans to fund 8283 new and competing research grants this year, down from 703, according to this table. This number strengthens the "hundreds less" price makers warned NIH earlier this year. Including (already assigned) ongoing grants that end, the total number of research grants will decrease 1357-3402 prices. The decline "reflects the fact that the budget of NIH has shrunk because of the new budget and the political reality, which is bad news for researchers and patients that they are trying to help," said Tony Mazzaschi of the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, DC
NIH will try to keep the size of the average grant in line with 2012; it will not grant inflationary increases for the coming years the agency also plans to cut subsidies. permanent. the subsidies that have been cut up to 10% earlier this year due to budgetary uncertainty "can be partially restored," but probably not at the level of the initial commitment, notice NIH said.
individual institutes have also begun to sequester announce their plans. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is effectively reduced by 5.8% to $ 4.78 billion due to transfers to other departments, NCI Director Harold Varmus said beneficiaries yesterday. Varmus wants to keep new and stable competitive grants, and NCI plans to 1006 prices, a decline of only 79. But to do this, NCI cut current subsidies of about 6%, the 6.5% centers, contracts 8.5%. Similar cuts will be made to or more intramural programs, Varmus wrote. Success rates, currently around 14%, "may refuse a small degree," wrote Varmus. "Needless to say, the person NCI is pleased with these reductions, but they are now inevitable for fiscal 2013."
At the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), which is lined with about 5% to $ 2.3 billion, subsidies and current centers will have a more modest 3.5% hit. But NIGMS provides only fund 758 new grants, a slide of 210 awards. 18% success rate.
As for how these cuts will affect individual companies, which may not be known for some time that the award notice trickle to recipient. However, the NIH director Francis Collins is already looking for stories of the impact of sequestration by a twitter debate he launched yesterday by using the hashtag #NIHSequesterImpact. "I'll share some of your stories to try to turn this mess around," he wrote in a follow-up tweet. An answer sampling appears below.
Young lab grant that would . was funded last year to unfunded day Firing talented ppl slows future progress NIHSequesterImpact #
. - DeWayne Townsend (@Dr_dtown) May 7, 2013
I was told 3 times that despite being qualified for the job, the laboratory has not hiring because of instability in #NIHSequesterImpact funding
- Travis Chapman (@ travischapman) May 7, 2013
My department has a T32 training grant Slots keep being empty. - laboratories do not feel stable enough to add a free * postdoc #NIHsequesterImpact.
- D. 'Beauty' Bancroft (@beautybancroft) May 7, 2013
#NIHSequesterImpact will only worsen the situation. I quit looking when I finish my thesis. No money and no cares.nexus.od.nih.gov/all/wp-content...
- clausti (@prettyflysci) May 7, 2013
If we can not reactive please / borrow / steal other laboratories to our medical school. Other schools are simply screwed. #NIHSequesterImpact
- Laura Mariani (@lauramariani) May 8, 2013
* Updated at 11:45 on May 10: The original l article said the NIH budget will be reduced by $ 1.55 billion in 2013, but it is only with the kidnapping. Including $ 156 million in transfers to other organizations and other adjustments to the NIH budget in fiscal 2013 continuing resolution, the overall reduction of $ 1.71 billion, or 5.5%.
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