The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) was a big winner in the budget President Bush delivered to Congress on Monday. The proposed fiscal year 2002 budget earmarks nearly $23.1 billion for the NIH, an increase of $2.75 billion, or 13.5%, over fiscal 2001. According to the NIH, the budget continues a four-year commitment to doubling the agency's size by 2003, an initiative started during the Clinton administration.
The new budget authorizes $40.2 million in fiscal 2002 for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), which was signed into law at the end of 2000. The funding represents a steep increase from the $1.75 million authorized last year for use in preliminary planning for the institute.
An NIH review committee is now conducting an analysis of bioengineering and research portfolios, the NIH said on Monday. The committee anticipates that some current projects will be moved into NIBIB in the future. The new institute will focus on developing and creating new technologies, and training researchers in order to fully integrate the quantitative sciences with biomedical research, according to the NIH.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
April 11, 2001
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