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The Scientist: NewsBlog:
Still hope for NIH funding boost?
[Entry posted at 16th May 2008 08:42 PM GMT]
| There still may be hope for a boost to National Institutes of Health funding in 2008. Yesterday the US Senate snuck some $400 million into a bill approved by the House earlier this week for funding the Iraq war.
At the end of last year, President Bush vetoed a 2008 appropriations bill that would have raised NIH funding by about $1 billion. In order to get the bill approved, Congress slashed $760 million of proposed NIH funding, resulting in about a 1% increase from last year's support.
While the President has vowed to veto the current bill if it contains any non-military budgeting, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) released a statement thanking Senator Tom Harkin for introducing the bill.
For more, check out coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Looking for Scientists who left field due to funding loss by Joanne Nicholas [Comment posted 2008-05-19 17:18:44] I am a medical researcher with NBC Nightly News. We are looking to interview a young scientist or post doc who did cancer research but is leaving due to the lack of NIH funding; inability to move up to your own lab, etc.
Please call my producer, jane Derenowski at 212 664-3251 if you wish to discuss being interviewed.
Thank you.
Joanne Nicholas 212 664-3801
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