The nuclear medicine/molecular imaging research community "may have to fight a hard battle to maintain ... federal research funding in 2007."
Those words came from Society of Nuclear Medicine President Dr. Peter S. Conti, late last week, after the U.S. Congress accepted President Bush's request to cut $23 million in funding in the Department of Energy's (DOE) fiscal-year 2006 budget.
The professor of radiology, clinical pharmacy, and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, said the budget cut "pulls the plug on discoveries that could have translated into better disease management for millions of patients fighting oncological, neurological, and cardiovascular diseases each year."
DOE-funded medical and scientific advances include the Anger gamma camera, PET, 18-F FDG, and the 99mMo/99m Tc generator.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
November 14, 2005
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