In the House of Representatives spending panel today approved an increase of $ 942 million for the National Institutes of Health that would bring its budget $ 2010-31300000000. This boost of 3.1% is about double what President Barack Obama requested. According to the Representative David Obey (D-WI), Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, the new money would also be in 27 institutes and centers of the NIH. (Details of the spending bill is not yet available.)
The request of the president included a 5% increase for cancer research at NIH, including a boost of 3.6 % to the National cancer Institute. Labor, health and social services, education subcommittee "reject [ed] The targeted funding approach to administration and ensur [ed] all institutes and centers receive funding to offset the inflation of biomedical research, "the press release said Obey.
biomedical research groups have welcomed the decision of the panel, the first step in a budget process long. "We are very happy. We are pleased to see that not only is it more than the president requested, but [Obey] does not intend to allocate funds for a specific disease, "said Carrie Wolinetz, spokeswoman experimental biology of Federation of American societies. FASEB has been said that the bill also rejects an additional $ 19 million for autism research that the president asked.
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