There is little to encourage biomedical researchers in the budget proposal the president released today: the proposal would take the National Institutes of budget (NIH ) health at current levels of $ 30,860,000,000.
While the budgets of most of the 27 NIH institutes remained stable NIH would move some money around through "priorities," said principal NIH deputy director Lawrence Tabak after a press conference today. The agency wants to add $ 64 million, an increase of 11%, the National Centre for the Advancement of Translational Sciences (NCATS). The increase would include $ 40 million for the Cures Acceleration Network (now funded at $ 10 million).
To release these funds, NIH wants to cut $ 51 million of the IDEA program, which are grants for states that get relatively modest funding NIH and administered by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Last year, Congress gave NIH great increase compared to what he had asked, so it was a place to cut, Tabak said. Another cut of $ 28 million will come from the budget now- $ 194 million budget of the national study of children within the Office of the Director. The massive study plans to follow the health of 100,000 children to adulthood has found ways to save money by changing recruitment strategies and the use of "existing infrastructure," said Tabak .
To squeeze more subsidies from the budget target of apartment is an increase of 8% of new subsidies, to 672, for a total of 9415 - NIH will put in new grant management policies square. ongoing subsidies will be reduced by 1% below the 2012 level, competing grants not inflationary increases in the coming years, and the NIH will add a new layer of review proposals from researchers who already have at least 1.5 $ million in funding.
However, the success rate is projected to rise slightly for all the lowest time this year from 18% to 19%, says NIH. And although new grants will increase the total number of grants awarded will actually drop 56-35888.
Tabak emphasized the positive: "I think this budget allows us to support an increased number of new and competing grants it is up 8% This budget allows us to continue the implementation of NCATS us. feel is very important. and this budget enables us to pursue our priorities in the basic sciences, scientific innovation and of course support for new researchers. "
But advocates of biomedical research have been disappointed." Overall, we are aware of the overall fiscal position, but we are still very concerned about the proposed freeze, "said David Moore, Director government relations for the Association of American Medical Colleges. It would be the 10th consecutive year that the NIH budget has not kept pace with inflation of biomedical research, he said. Therefore, in dollars adjusted for inflation, "we would be 20% below where we were ten years ago," says Moore.
A new $ 80 million for Alzheimer's research which was announced last week does not come from the NIH budget, but the health Fund Prevention and public of the Ministry of health and social Services, which is a pot of money created by the 2010 law of care health. Tabak said NIH is not known whether the funding is for 1 year or continue in the coming years
Correction :. the proposed reduction in the institutional development Awards (IDeA) program of $ 51 million, not $ 48 million.
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