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发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Faculty
标 题: house的nih budget出来了，增加了3.2%
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jul 13 13:47:30 2017, 美东)
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH's) budget would get a modest 3.2%
raise, to $35.2 billion, in a draft spending bill released by a House of
Representatives committee today. To the relief of U.S. research universities
, the measure would also explicitly block a proposal by the Trump
administration to slash by two-thirds the payments that NIH disburses to
cover the overhead costs of the research it funds. Furthermore, the bill
ignores a Trump plan to abolish NIH’s widely lauded global health center.
Although the $1.1 billion increase is only about half of the raises Congress
has given the agency the past 2 years, the Trump administration had
proposed cutting NIH’s budget by $7.5 billion, a drop of 22% from this year
’s level. The White House had argued that this could be accomplished
without much impact on number of grants or research overall by slashing how
much NIH compensates universities for “indirect costs,” the administrative
and facilities costs associated with the direct costs of a project, from 28
% of its overall extramural research spending to a flat rate of 10% of a
total individual grant.
The plan deeply worried universities and research institutions, which now
individually negotiate indirect rates for their institutions with the
government. They argued that even at current levels, these payments don’t
come close to covering the full cost of utilities, ethics review boards,
animal care facilities, administrative staff, hazardous waste disposal, high
-speed computers, and other services needed to support NIH-funded research
projects. Universities warned that any cuts could force many institutions to
curtail NIH research on their campuses. |
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