Proposed U.S. Geological Survey Budget Would Provide “Significant” Increase

Proposed NIH budget increase too small to meet research needs.

I n an era of supposed budget surpluses and debt reduction, most researchers in the field of biomedical science had anticipated that the planned doubling of the budget for the National Institutes of Health by the year 2003 would remain on track. However, after the State of the Union address by President Clinton, most were chagrined to realize that he proposed to increase the NIH budget by just ...

US Geological Survey–Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Policy Punctuations : US Budget

United States Geological Survey

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.