Proposed NIH Budget Includes Mandatory Funding.
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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.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cancer discovery
دوره 6 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016