President Proposes $1 Billion Increase For NIH

From The Cancer Letter, Feb. 5, 2010:

President Barack Obama’s FY2011 budget request includes $32.2 billion for NIH, an increase of $1 billion, or 3.2 percent.

Cancer and autism are listed as “high-priority areas” for the administration. NCI would receive $5.26 billion, an increase of $162.9 million—the largest dollar increase proposed for any of the NIH institutes—over the current budget of $5.1 billion.

Also in this issue:

• AHRQ Draft Report Finds No Benefit For Biomarker Testing In Oncology
  

For the rest of the story, click on The Cancer Letter Archive at left to read the Feb. 15 issue (subscription or day pass required).

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tags: White House|  research funding