A panel of the Senate today approved a 2012 bill spending slightly reduce the National Institutes of Health budget ( NIH), the cutting of $ 10 million to $ 30.5 billion. The bill would also make a priority of director Francis Collins NIH creating a new center dedicated to the translation of basic discoveries in treatment.
biomedical research lobbyists say that overall fiscal pressure data, they feel pleased that the NIH has received an essentially flat funding. "In the current environment, it could have been worse," says Jennifer Zeitzer, director of legislative relations for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Washington, DC
When creating a new center National advancing translational sciences (NCATS) Bill also abolishes the National research Center Resources-completion of a major reorganization of the 27 institutes and centers of the NIH proposed by the NIH that was very controversial. NCATS is one of several initiatives in the bill "will leverage systemic change," according to Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), chairman of the Senate subcommittee credits on labor, health and human services (HHS), and education.
in NCATS, the bill contains $ 20 million for the Cures acceleration network, a program created last year by law to reform health care has not yet received funding. It will focus on the provision of subsidies to develop "high need cures" that are not far enough to be picked up by companies, according to a press release from the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The full committee will vote on the bill tomorrow, how much more detailed numbers are available.
The House of Representatives corresponding appropriations subcommittee scheduled to approve the bill labor / HHS last week, but could not reach agreement and abandoned the effort, Harkin said. Instead, the two chambers should forge a so-called omnibus appropriations bill that rolls finance many government agencies into a single bill. The brand of the Senate for NIH could give lawmakers a starting point for NIH funding level in the omnibus bill.
The 2012 fiscal year begins on October 1, but lawmakers will not make this deadline for approving new credits. Instead, they are expected to approve a continuing resolution that funds organizations at 1.4% below 2011 levels to 18 November, how Congress could extend the resolution continues or approve the omnibus bill.
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