Update of sorts … in Nature (excerpt included as comment below) and Science.
NCI: $4,890,525,000 ($8M for intramural facility renovation)
NHLBI: $2,974,900,000
NIDCR: $396,632,000
NIDDK: $1,736,199,000
NINDS: $1,571,353,000
NIAID: $4,641,746,000 ($300M to Global HIV/AIDS Fund)
NIGMS: $1,970,228,000.
NICHD: $1,277,017,000.
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In addition to budget levels, also of potential interest in the current draft of the omnibus appropriations text for HHS, Education, & Labor are provisions in Sec 218 (p 81): “The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central Read the rest of this entry »
I still haven’t had a chance to check them out, but I know Drugmonkey and many more of you will want to dig into these presentations by Zerhouni, Tabak, Yamamoto, Krensky (Dr. OPASI), et al. at the Dec 7 Advisory Committee to the Director meeting.
Update: The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a nice summary of Keith Yamamoto’s suggestions.
Update: W signed the omnibus budget bill today (12/26) … with, no big surprise, a signing statement. Didn’t care for the earmarks or $28 billion extra in spending approved by Congress (& signed into law … sort of, it seems).
Sausage is almost in the casing with the Senate passage (76-17) of the omnibus appropriations bill tonight (12/1 
… and the House passed (272-141) it tonight (12/19). Apparently ~9000 earmarks costing over $7 billion. A tad fewer than the 31,000+ originally submitted at least. Final text passed available through Thomas at the Library of Congress (search bills for “H.R.2764.EAH”). Read the rest of this entry »
Update: Please see the NIH Paylines & Resources page for the latest information.
Einstein/Yeshiva Payline Table
I see the Council of Councils Nov 8 meeting presentations are now online. The second slide of Next Steps shows just how easy it will be to propose new initiatives! And actually, the History of the NIH Reform Act is interesting, as is the look into the next Roadmap initiative on phenotyping. Norka Bravo’s Scientists in the Pipeline talk includes the previously posted graying of NIH PIs PPT plus some new charts & data points. And as DM discusses separately, the PRAC (peer review advisory committee) Dec 3 presentations are now online.
However, something worth special mention is the new Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC), created to standardize budget reporting by research topic as conveniently summarized by (of course) NIAID. Although - oy! - I would hope the tips presented at the bottom have been regularly followed by PIs before the advent of RCDC. Thankfully, I have not come across a sentence like “This project will not study lung cancer” in any specific aims I’ve reviewed. Yet.
The Chronicle hosted a live Q&A session with the Great Zerhouni on Tuesday, Dec 4 and posted the Q&As posted here , such that they are… congrats to Whimple aka human taxpayer/researcher, major state university on getting his question answered. Or not.
