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Subcommittees of the United States House Appropriations Committee met earlier this week (July 12) to advance drafts of federal spending legislation for fiscal year 2022, which begins on October 1 of this year.
According to Science, the proposed legislation would result in funding increases of 15 percent for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 13 percent for the National Science Foundation (NSF), 8 percent for NASA, and 4 percent for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.
Of the proposed $6.5 billion increase for the NIH, nearly half is designated to establish the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. This new entity is designed to accelerate research to “develop breakthroughs to prevent, detect, and treat diseases like Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and cancer,” President Joe Biden told Congress in April.
“It’s the opportunity to take on large, high risk projects quickly in an entrepreneurial way,” NIH ...
