This letter appeared last September on The Scientist. The fact that becoming an independent researcher takes upwards of 15years is just too long for me. Furthermore, being in research for almost a decade (undergrad, graduate, 1 yr postdoc), I have noticed that funding favors medical researchers. I[...]
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September 2nd, 2012 - 9:11 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
How NIH Funding Effects Science As a Career
NIH Budget Crunch
There is a petition to the White House to increase the NIH budget for FY 2013. This petition was started by Steve Metzler at Johns Hopkins. The current White House proposal calls for a flat NIH budget. After factoring in inflation, flat funding is an equivalent of a funding cut. Research is already [...]
NIH budget maintained at the price of loss of student tuition support.
Congress Would Raise NIH Spending and Maintain Maximum Pell Grant, but at a Cost By Kelly Field Washington Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a spending bill for the remainder of the current fiscal year that would increase funds for the National Institutes of Health by 1 per[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 10:31 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
UW AAUP Censors a post about the NIH.
A few days ago I posted a very important issue .. the 50% decline in funding rates at he NIH since the early 2000’s. I discussed why this should be of concern to all of us interested in the University School of Medicine. I also suggested that our federal representatives need to be educated a[...]
October 11th, 2011 - 3:26 am § in Uncategorized
Silly Science Paid for by NIH
This is almost a shaggy dog story. Did you here the one about fat guy who though Diet Coke dissolved cholesterol??? from CBS News: That’s what the experts are saying in light of new research that raises concern about diet soda. It’s not proof of harm, but it suggests that people who dr[...]
Is the NIH Imploding?
IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. Figures just published on Genomeweb look grim. The good news is that the NIH grant success rate is now 17.4%. The bad news […][...]
October 4th, 2011 - 7:31 am § in Science
UPDATES on NIH budget
The AVE previously reported that the House version of the NIH budget held some good news, a proposed 3.3% increase. That seems impressive in these bad times but there are serious issues unmentioned in the report. 1. The bill would require that NIH award at least 9,150 new and competing rese[...]
September 30th, 2011 - 9:52 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
NIH may get 3% at the cost of cuts to Pell grants
Inside Higher Education For those here who are not obsessed with the NIH budget, the usual process has been for the President to lowball and then lobbyists and Congress raise the budget. This year things are a LOT different. The Senate is proposing an increase of less than 1% with dictates on spen[...]
September 27th, 2011 - 8:38 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
BREAKING NEWS: NIH budget has modest cuts .. so far
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 [...]
BREAKING NEWS: What The Super Committtee Debacle Means for the NIH
Yesterday President Obama was asked how he would respond to any effort to block the automatic spending cuts without corresponding abandonmment of the huge tax cuts Bush made for the very wealthy. Obama’s sho9srt answer was “NO.” “I will veto any effort to get rid of those aut[...]