President Biden released his March 11, in which he requests Congress increase funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and $716 million in discretionary funds for the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Funding for the Cancer Moonshot program was also incorporated into the proposed budget.
NIH was allocated $48.3 billion, an $872 million (1.8%) increase over FY 2023 funding (FY24 funding for NIH has not yet been released). Additionally, the budget proposal would provide level funding of $1.5 billion for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). In its first two years of operation, ARPA-H launched a series of high-risk, high-reward initiatives supported by the 新澳门六合彩官网® (新澳门六合彩官网®).
Included in the overall NIH increase, the president’s budget seeks $716 million in discretionary funds for the National Cancer Institute (NCI), an increase of $500 million above FY 2023. This funding would go toward research, prevention, diagnosis and treatment efforts, which rely on radiology and imaging tools.
The Cancer Moonshot initiative received mandatory funding of $1.5 billion across the NCI, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and ARPA-H.
More information about the president’s proposed budget can be found through the .
The Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research, of which 新澳门六合彩官网 is a member, applauding the president’s request to provide a necessary increase in discretionary funding for medical research, while expressing concern that the proposed base budget request for FY 2025 lags behind biomedical inflation and would force NIH to reduce its capacity to support medical research nationwide. The Ad Hoc Group is for the NIH base level.
The president’s budget provides insight into priorities of the White House and is an important step in the appropriations process. Following the president’s budget, Congress will release a budget which may reflect sections of the president’s proposal. Due to conflicts between the House and Senate, Congress has not yet established the final FY 2024 budget for the NIH, and the agency has been working under a continuing resolution since fall of 2023.
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