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发帖数: 1794 | 1 这点钱还不够美军造艘船的成本，虽然不多，也比没有好点。
By Jocelyn Kaiser 23 June 2015 5:15 pm 2 Comments
At last, biomedical researchers may be getting some relief. A Senate panel
today approved a bill that would bestow a generous $2 billion increase on
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2016, or what appears to be a 6%
raise, to $32 billion. Although a House of Representatives panel last week
approved a lower figure, it seems the agency may be on track to its first
significant increase in more than a decade.
The draft bill approved today by the Senate appropriations panel that
oversees NIH’s budget would give the agency twice the $1 billion proposed
by the Obama administration and $900 million more than the corresponding
House panel, according to a summary statement.
The National Institute on Aging, which the panel notes funds Alzheimer’s
disease research, would receive $350 million more, or a roughly 25% increase
. (The House version of the bill also favors Alzheimer’s, but takes a
different approach, directly earmarking $300 million for the disease—$250
million more than the president’s request.)
The Senate measure matches the president’s request of $200 million for a
Precision Medicine Initiative, and $100 million in new funding for NIH’s
part of a transagency antibiotics initiative. The BRAIN brain-mapping
initiative would receive $135 million, nearly twice the $70 million
requested by the president. The Institutional Development Awards for states
with relatively little NIH funding, which the president’s budget flat
funded at $273 million, would receive a $27 million increase.
Since Congress completed a 5-year doubling of the NIH budget in 2003, the
agency’s funding level has fallen more than 20% below the 2003 level after
taking into account the rising costs of biomedical research. That has led to
fierce competition and record-low success rates for researchers applying
for NIH grants.
The bill goes to the full Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. It
would normally head to the Senate floor next, but that may not happen any
time soon because of a political dispute between Republicans and Democrats
over long-term budgeting issues. Eventually, the House and Senate will need
to reconcile the numbers in the two bills; usually they meet somewhere in
the middle. Any final NIH spending number for the 2016 fiscal year that
begins 1 October may not be clear until late this year.
“The Senate mark is obviously the best subcommittee action we have seen for
NIH in more than 12 years. It shows that there is real momentum on a
bipartisan basis in the House and the Senate that the restoration of NIH
funding is priority,” says Pat White, president of ACT for NIH, a group in
Washington, D.C., that lobbies for biomedical research funding.
A measure called the 21st Century Cures Act that is awaiting a vote by the
full House would give NIH an additional $2 billion a year through 2020 from
funds that are separate from the usual appropriations process.
Posted in Funding, Policy Budget 2016
http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2015/06/senate-panel-approve | z*******6
发帖数: 679 | | r*****t
发帖数: 4793 | | c********e
发帖数: 215 | | v**********m
发帖数: 5516 | 5 先把学生和博后的fellowship从RO1中抽出，把overhead的比例降低才行，否则加钱只
是给学校更多的贪婪机会。
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【在 z*******o 的大作中提到】
: 这点钱还不够美军造艘船的成本，虽然不多，也比没有好点。
: By Jocelyn Kaiser 23 June 2015 5:15 pm 2 Comments
: At last, biomedical researchers may be getting some relief. A Senate panel
: today approved a bill that would bestow a generous $2 billion increase on
: the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2016, or what appears to be a 6%
: raise, to $32 billion. Although a House of Representatives panel last week
: approved a lower figure, it seems the agency may be on track to its first
: significant increase in more than a decade.
: The draft bill approved today by the Senate appropriations panel that
: oversees NIH’s budget would give the agency twice the $1 billion proposed
| l****y
发帖数: 486 | 6 把 overhead降低是对的。
把学生和博后的fellowship从R01中抽出，对中国 trainee并不利。因为身份问题，多
数中国人拿不到NIH fellowship.
【在 v**********m 的大作中提到】
: 先把学生和博后的fellowship从RO1中抽出，把overhead的比例降低才行，否则加钱只
: 是给学校更多的贪婪机会。
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| v**********m
发帖数: 5516 | 7 Nih已经提议全球申请者都可以，不限身份。这样做，至少可以控制trainee的总数。如
果还是像以前那样trainee泛滥，这个职业前景只能沦落成富士康的集体宿舍。好的
trainee不愿加入没有门槛的泥水战，加上职业成功运气也非常重要，最后的trainee的
素质可想而知。
现在医学院里的千老中像老博后ID那样好学校出身的已经很少。滥招学生，加剧竞争，
结果只能是逼走高素质的学生。
现在，美国常春藤里的千老本科很多都是二三线的本科学校毕业，职业前景暗淡促使很
多牛校本科毕业生出国后转行，连牛逼的11公都曾经动过这种心思，说明此学科的恶性
竞争环境已经到了劣币驱逐良币的程度。
【在 l****y 的大作中提到】
: 把 overhead降低是对的。
: 把学生和博后的fellowship从R01中抽出，对中国 trainee并不利。因为身份问题，多
: 数中国人拿不到NIH fellowship.
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