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National Institutes of Health budget has been cut by 0.8 per cent, says advocacy group
The budget for the National Institutes of Health has been cut by about 0.8 per cent for the coming year, according to the health research advocacy group Research!America, whose chief executive Mary Woolley described the move as a “step back”.
The NIH is the biggest public funder of research in the world, but Research!America calculated that it has suffered in 2024 from an attempt to rein in federal spending in general through the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act.
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