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The Senate offered a small raise of $100 million for the 2013 National Institutes of Health budget on Tuesday (June 12), despite the fact that the President requested no increase. The Department of Energy's Office of Science, however, is facing a slight budget cut.
While researchers are appreciative of any increase to NIH funding, Jennifer Zeitzer, a director at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, told ScienceInsider, "it's going to be difficult for people in the research community. One-hundred-million dollars doesn't go very far." While the budget has stayed roughly at the same level in recent years, research advocates say that given the rate of biomedical inflation, spending has actually dropped by 17 percent over the past decade. And the US House of ...
