The Senate Finance Committee yesterday approved a modest increase of $ 100 million for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fiscal 2013, which begins October 1. The 0.3% bump for a total of $ 30.723 billion is slightly better than the president's request for no increase, but it is disappointing to the research community.
NIH funding bill provides $ 40 million for the Cures Acceleration Network, four times its current budget (but $ 10 million below the President's request). But he rejects a proposal of the President to cut $ 50 million Institutional Development Scholarship Program (IDeA), which aims to give institutions in the poorest countries a better chance of NIH funding. Instead, the Committee to maintain funding at about $ 276 million. "The Committee believes that the IDEA program has made a significant contribution to biomedical research and the creation of a skilled workforce," he noted in a report accompanying the bill. It also urges NIH to expand the number eligible schools in the program.
the committee made a $ 28 million return garnish requested $ 165 million for the study of the National Children (NCS), an ambitious but troubled federal plan to follow the health of 100,000 children from birth through 21 years the panel hopes that the 15% cut "is a positive sign that the NIH intends to lower the costs of NCS under control and move its appropriation more efficiently, "he writes in the report." the Committee is disturbed that after the appropriation near [$1 billion] for the NCS since the first work on it began in the year 00, only a few thousand children were registered and fundamental questions about the implementation of the project remain, particularly regarding the methods that will be used to recruit participants. "The panel also wants the National Academy of Sciences to examine the statistical sampling strategy NCS and NIH to" improve the level of communication with the research community about future changes to the project. "
about Alzheimer's disease, the panel reprimanded the officials for NIH plans to boost research in the field by the snags $ 80 million of a fund for prevention and health public (PPH) $ 500 million established by legislation to reform health care. "Research of the NIH is not an appropriate use of the PPH Fund," he wrote. "In addition, the Committee believes that it would be a dangerous precedent to provide specific amounts of NIH funding for individual diseases. The Committee notes that he took the same position in 2010, when the administration has proposed allocating specific funding levels for research on cancer and autism. "
The bill must still be approved by the Senate. The House appropriations panel has yet to introduce its version of the bill.
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