House Committee Proposes 3 Percent Boost to NIH Funding

The US House of Representatives appropriations committee yesterday released a draft bill that would give a 3 percent boost in funding to the National Institutes of Health, increasing the agency’s budget from roughly $37.1 billion to $38.3 billion in fiscal 2019.  Included in the appropriation committee’s NIH funding proposal is a $401 million increase in Alzheimer’s disease research to $2.25 billion; a $100 million increase in funding for the Cancer Moonshot initiative to $400 million; a $29 million funding boost to $429 million for the BRAIN initiative; and a $147 million increase in funding for the All of Us initiative to $437 million.

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