The Senate Appropriations Committee has proposed to trim the budget of the National Institutes of Healthby .6 percen, This would leave the NIH at $30.5 billion ,The Committee also proposes $582 million to launch the National Center for Advancing Translational Research, while eliminating the National Center for Research Resources.In the budget, which funds the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, the committee members expressed regret “that fiscal constraints prevent a higher recommended funding level for NIH. With tight budgets likely to continue for the foreseeable future, the [Appropriations] Committee strongly urges NIH to explore creative ways to rethink the way it allocates its funding.The Committe also said “The alternative—continuing to nick away, little by little, at the success rate or the size of awards—will inevitably have a negative impact on young investigators, who represent the nation’s future, and on high-risk, high-reward research opportunities. and also credited NIH with “making significant efforts in both of these priority areas despite relatively flat budgets in recent years.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had a smaller cut $6.22 billion, a small cut of around $63 million.but the CDC’s Office of Public Health Genomics, will be cut by 90 percent, or $11.6 million. CDC said that its genomics work “overlap with other federal agencies,” and it will “focus the staff on the implementation of proven applications of genomics to areas of public health importance.”