Obama Budget Proposal Would Increase Science Agency Funding

President Bush's 2002 budget proposal would hamper geriatric education.

Collective allocation of science funding: from funding agencies to scientific agency

Public agencies like the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) award tens of billions of dollars in annual science funding. How can this money be distributed as efficiently as possible to best promote scientific innovation and productivity? The present system relies primarily on peer review of project proposals. In 2010 alone, NSF convened more than ...

Obama presses Congress to agree to Zika funding.

After meeting with health officials on 1 July, US President Barack Obama has called on Congress to back a bill to fund the US response to the Zika virus disease outbreak before it breaks for its seven week summer recess. “We have to get the money from Congress over the next two weeks to make sure that we can begin to develop the effective vaccines, the mosquito abatement tools, the state emerge...

Proposed NIH Budget Includes Mandatory Funding.

President Obama has proposed an overall budget increase of $825 million for the NIH in fiscal year 2017 compared with 2016. That money would be reserved for three efforts: the NCI's "moonshot" initiative, the Precision Medicine Initiative cohort program, and the BRAIN program.

From funding agencies to scientific agency: Collective allocation of science funding as an alternative to peer review.

"From funding agencies to scientific agency: Collective allocation of science funding as an alternative to peer review". EMBO Reports 15 (1): 1-121.