Like the leaders of the White House promised the weekend, the 2011 finance bill agreed by Congress and White House last Friday savings biomedical large cuts.
Details released today indicate that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would receive $ 30.7 billion, or $ 260 million below the level of 2010. The cut of 0.8% includes $ 210 million spread over all the 27 institutes and centers of the NIH and the principal's office, and $ 50 million from an account buildings. (Adding a 0.2% across-the-board cut in all non-defense agencies, the total reduction will be about $ 300 million, said David Moore of the Association of American Medical Colleges.) By contrast , a project of the House earlier, HR 1, would have reduced the budget of the NIH of $ 1.6 billion to $ 29.5 billion.
Contrary to the proposal by the House earlier, the bill does not contain the language rather than by research groups that would have required NIH to support a number of new subsidies to a minimum funding level . Bill does not mention not the Cures Acceleration Network (CAN), a drug development program created by law to reform health care last year. But NIH needs money to get started CAN as part of a new center for translational research. It is possible that the NIH will request funds when it shall submit detailed spending plans next month, said Jennifer Zeitzer of Experimental Biology Federation of American Societies.
Moore said that given the House earlier proposal and overall reductions in other agencies in the bill, "the end result for the NIH to be regarded as relatively good news. Research is sure people will be disappointed is being cut, but in the current budgetary climate, it could have been much worse. "But while Zeitzer said his group is" satisfied ", she noted that many lawmakers urge further cuts in 2012 budget now before Congress." It will be a short-term relief, "she said about the agreement of 2011.
the bill terminates a few dramatic days last week when scientists in Bethesda, Maryland, the NIH campus, were preparing for a possible shutdown of the federal government. the researchers running clinical trials planned to stop enrolling new patients, and permissions were planned for all but about a quarter of the 19,000 staff of the NIH, who were considered "essential" for patient care and maintain pets and cell lines. NIH has also planned to shutter ClinicalTrials.gov and PubMed abstracts database.
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