February 01, 2010
By a GenomeWeb staff reporter
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – In its budget plan for 2011, the White House today said it will seek a $1 billion, or a 3.2 percent, increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health, even though the overall budget for the fiscal year plans a freeze on non-military discretionary spending as part of an effort to reign in the federal deficit.
“I think in this restrained budget the investment of $1 billion shows that the president sees research as a priority,” Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a press conference outlining her department’s budget today.
President Obama’s NIH budget would rise in 2011 to $32.9 billion from this year’s budget of $31.9 billion.