The president's budget would give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a modest 2.4% increase in 2012 to 745 $ million compared to the 2010 level, bringing the total to $ 31.8 billion.
The application includes an important new program. The proposed National Centre for the Advancement of Science Translational which "rethink the pipeline for the diagnosis and therapeutic discovery and development," the budget document said would NCATS built in part of a program to support clinical research of $ 485 million to the National research resource Center. NCRR, despite protests from the research community, is scheduled to be abolished.
However, NCRR remains a post in the 2012 budget and NCATS is not there. in fact, the agency is still deciding where to place other pieces of NCRR, NIH Director Francis Collins told reporters today.
Some programs get NCATS fold increases in 2012. Cures acceleration network, a drug development program created by the health care law last year, would be funded for the first time at $ 100 million. And another program called TRND develops drugs for rare and neglected diseases would see its budget double to $ 50 million. Most of the NIH institutes, however, would receive increases of between 1.6% and 2%.
NIH also wants to give graduates and postdocs on training grants a 4% increase in their allocations this year. The agency will fund 9158 new grants for research projects, a decrease of 228 from the level of 2010. The average success rate for an application submitted dipped below 21% for the first time, to 19% this year and the next.
The increase in the proposed financing of 2.4% is below the projected inflation for biomedical research to 3% in 2012, and the agency is already losing much about it this year purchasing power if, as expected, its budget remains flat. But Collins told reporters, "this kind of tax environment ... for NIH to always be given a chance to see an increase of $ 745 million is a reflection of how strongly the president feels about science and innovation as the engine of our economy and our health in future. "
and biomedical researchers are" exhilarated, not so much by the number "but that the NIH is expected to increase, said William Talman, president of the Federation of American societies for experimental biology. the slight increase "talk [Obama's] commitment to biomedical research," said Talman.
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