Nearly 80% of NIH staff will be furloughed if Congress fails to fund the federal government or pass a continuing resolution before midnight Saturday, Sept. 30—halting many administrative functions and nonclinical activities in the agency’s research pipelines.
As NCI paylines drop to 4%, cancer centers are tapping into their institutional funds to provide “bridge funding,” typically in $50,000 to $100,000 increments, to enable investigators to keep their labs open until better times return—next year God willing.
