First, Congress should follow through on increasing the NIH budget by $2 billion in fiscal 2017, said Nancy Davidson, president of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Second, the House and the Senate should craft appropriations bills that will provide robust, sustainable, and predictable increases for fiscal 2018, said Davidson, executive director and president at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, senior vice president and director of the Clinical Oncology Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and professor and Head, Division of Medical Oncology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.