Biden’s latest budget gets a mixed reaction from the science community
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Rebecca Trager2023-03-15T16:05:00
White House has proposed 2% funding increase for basic research and the NIH, but NSF and others would fare very well
President Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2024 is receiving a mixed response from the scientific and academic research communities. The White House’s new request would provide the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a marginal, sub-inflationary increase of less than 2%, and it would offer about the same for federally funded basic research. But other agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) would fare much better.
‘NIH won’t be able to sustain funding scientific research,’ warns the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s director of public affairs, Sarina Neote. ‘This means the agency will be forced to leave good science on the table; this leads to fewer medical advances, breakthrough studies, fewer scientists trained and overall a negative impact on the research ecosystem,’ she tells Chemistry World.