My Hobby and Interest - Research

 Research!America Research!America Encouraged by Senate Appropriations Committee Support for Research and Public Health Agency Funding July 31, 2025 Arlington, VA –  Research!America, a nonprofit alliance that advocates for science, discovery, and innovation to achieve better health for all, is encouraged by the Senate Appropriations Committee’s markup of its Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS) bill. Research!America applauds the committee and its leadership.   Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee proposed a net $400 million increase over FY25 funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Other agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), were flat funded or received modest budget cuts. Th...

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  Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks. by Don Moynihan The world's largest biomedical funder is the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In the past, the usual way to assess how well NIH is supporting science has been to look at the NIH budget number: how much money Congress has appropriated for the agency. Under Trump, however, that assessment is no longer the only thing that matters. In recent months, the Trump administration has created a new policy for the NIH — a policy change without Congressional consent — that will produce devastating cuts to US science, with no change in budget required. And there is little public information about how it will work. That new policy is the 'multi-year funding' policy. In short, the Trump administration has requi...