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The NIH budget, the largest US government funder of medical research, is bigger now than at any time before 2000 (although it's down a bit from the 2003 peak, a
by apsec112 9y ago
The NIH budget, the largest US government funder of medical research, is bigger now than at any time before 2000 (although it's down a bit from the 2003 peak, adjusting for inflation).
Source: https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/NIHMech_1.jpg https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/NIHMech_1.jpg
- zackmorris 9y agoThank you, if that's true then I stand corrected. Something to consider though is the NIH is under constant threat of cuts which might discourage going deep on hard problems: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/16/520390147/trump-administration-proposes-big-cuts-in-medical-research http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/16/52039014... Also $30 billion is only 0.75% of the projected $4 trillion federal budget for next year. Just percentage-wise this seems like something that should be low on the list for cuts.