Bush asks for expansion in grants and minority training, but his 4.7% projected increase falls short of rising lab costs. |
President Bush is asking for $7.9 billion next year for the National Institutes of Health, a 4.7% increase over present spending. That request includes such welcome increases as: an increase from 4,633 to 5,095 in the number of new and competing extramural research grants; 225 more postdoctoral trainees, bringing the total to a new high of 12,020; a $48 million increase, to $108 million, in the Human Genome Initiative; and $57 million more to fight AIDS, bringing the Public Health Service total to $1.7 billion.
Other increases are meant to encourage more minorities...
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