Just a few days after a Senate panel approved shrinking NSF’s budget by $162 million, it signs off on a spending bill that would cut the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $190 million, down to a total of $30.5 billion. Though not a severe reduction, it is only the second drop in the NIH budget since 1970. (In 2006, the NIH funds suffered a $33.7 million cut from the 2005 budget. Stay tuned for a more in depth look at the history of science funding in the United States and Europe next months' feature “A Quarter Century of Fueling Science.”)
Still, given the financial crunch facing government budgets across the board, it’s a reasonably good outcome, Jennifer Zeitzer, director of legislative ...
