Senate proposes to cut NIH’s budget by 0.6%

The National Institutes of Health would receive budget cut of 0.6 per cent in fiscal year 2012 under a bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on 21 September. Overall, the measure would fund NIH at $30.5 billion, which represents a reduction of $190 million.

At the same time, an amendment to the apropriations bill offered by Kansas Republican Senator Jerry Moran, which would have restored the NIH funding through an across-the-board cut for all other programmes, failed.