Feature Channels: Budgets and Funding

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NIH Director Francis Collins was the keynote speaker at a conference that kicked off University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Accelerating Innovation and Discovery in Medicine (ACCEL-Med) program in which the medical school asked a panel of world-famous scientists to act as advisors and consultants on where the School’s research efforts should be.

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As the House and Senate budget conference committee readies to meet November 13th, a new report shows how millions of Americans have been hurt by the reckless cuts to programs that rely on discretionary federal funding, from medical research to education and national parks.

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Federal investment in social and behavioral science research has improved the health and well-being of Americans for years, but a new report published today shows how reckless discretionary federal funding cuts now threaten important work like this.

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A new report by a coalition of the leading U.S. research universities focuses on the creation of new companies that bring innovations to market, create new jobs, and contribute to economic growth through federal investment in research. The University of Illinois at Chicago is a standout leader in spawning the birth of such startup enterprises.

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Alexis Carulli wants to make a difference in fighting human disease. So do the thousands of bright graduate students like her. But with federal scientific research funding flat, eroded by inflation and cut by budget sequestration, Carulli worries for her generation of aspiring biomedical scientists.

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Media advisory on government shutdown

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Automatic federal budget cuts, known as the sequester, which began March 1, have had minimal impact on federal regulatory agencies, finds a new report on the U.S. budget for fiscal years 2013 and 2014.

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Radiation oncology research received 197 grants, totaling only 1.6 percent ($85.5 million) of the $5.4 billion in cancer research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, according to a study available online and in the June 1, 2013, print issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics (Red Journal), the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

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The summer sequester effect on federal employee morale could potentially leave a gaping hole in the federal workforce for years to come due to the brain-drain from federal ranks which may ironically end up costing the government more in the long run says American University's Robert Tobias.

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On May 7, 2013, NCI Director Harold Varmus sent an email to all NCI grantees informing them of reductions to NCI’s budget for fiscal year 2013. The reductions, due in large part to sequestration, are spread across NCI’s portfolio to protect NCI’s ability to issue new and competing research project grants.

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ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA – Innovative and potentially game-changing clinical trials to develop new drug regimens to prevent and treat tuberculosis (TB), the second leading global infectious disease killer, are in jeopardy due to federal "sequestration" funding cuts.

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, one of the nation’s top cancer research and prevention centers and pioneer of bone marrow and stem cell transplantation, today called on Congress to support restoring full funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which supports pioneering research that saves lives. Funding was recently cut due to sequestration.

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The main source of online weather training for meteorologists, emergency managers, and others is seeking donations to try to stay in business.

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Drastic cuts in public spending only exacerbate turmoil in already-troubled economies.

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Cuts in federal funding of nanotechnology research threaten to slow progress toward some of the field’s greatest promises, including commercialization of sustainable new energy sources that do not contribute to global warming, an international authority in the field cautioned here today.

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A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) examines the potential impact of sequestration on community health centers and their patients and communities.

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A group of Seattle’s leading health research institutions have sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to take action to prevent sequestration funding cuts from taking effect on Friday, March 1.

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Results from a survey suggest that a large majority of Americans are more concerned about jobs and unemployment than they are about the budget deficit. And not surprisingly, Republicans and Democrats have somewhat different budget priorities, yet a clear majority of Americans their representatives to work with others to get things done.

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Science and engineering students have hand-delivered a petition to the local offices of all U.S. senators and House leaders, requesting that sequestration be halted because it would harm their future as innovators and hurt economic growth in the United States. The students represent numerous scientific societies across the United States, including the American Physical Society.

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Despite their diversity, U.S. nonprofits are in basic agreement that seven core values—being productive, effective, enriching, empowering, responsive, reliable, and caring—set the nonprofit sector apart from government and for-profit businesses, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies' Listening Post Project.

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The Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) today directed a letter to the New York State Congressional Delegation calling on them to reject a nearly 10-percent cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Medicare and Title VII health professions programs, that will take effect January 2, 2013.

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In a commentary to be published in the Dec. 12 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, two Johns Hopkins faculty members predict an ever-diminishing role for government and drug company funding of basic biomedical research and suggest scientists look to “innovative” kinds of private investment for future resources. Current negotiations in Washington over sequestration and the so-called “fiscal cliff” provide an opportunity to fundamentally rethink the funding of biomedical research, they say.

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Patient-led advocacy has created a shift in the way the U.S. government has prioritized funding for medical research, and significantly changed the way policymakers think about who benefits the most from these dollars, according to a new study.

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The U.S. seems poised to make one of the largest cuts ever in research funding – a decision that could have long-lasting and far-reaching implications for our collective future.

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For the sixth straight year, city revenues around the country dropped in 2011, as costs of health care, pensions and infrastructure rose, says a public administration and infrastructure expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Michael Wilkerson is available to discuss the labor and financial difficulties arts organizations, such as orchestras, are currently facing.

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arXiv, the free repository that has revolutionized the way scientists share information, is adopting a new governance and business model that will allow it to grow thanks to new funding.

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Medical research saves lives, suffering and dollars – while also creating jobs and economic activity. The United States has long led the world -- but risks losing out to Asia as the hub of medical discovery, a research team warns.

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The budget for issuing and enforcing federal regulation is expected to decline in the 2013 fiscal year, finds a new report from Washington University in St. Louis and George Washington University.

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The Vermont legislature passed a bill that directs researchers at the University of Vermont to develop a new way of measuring the health of the state economy. Policymakers will use the Vermont Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) to account for factors like environmental impact, human rights, and volunteer work that are not measured in traditional GDP. Governor Shumlin has indicated he will sign the bill, making it the first such law in the United States.

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Jonathan Lunine, Cornell University professor of astronomy, adviser to NASA, and principal investigator for a mission to sail one of the three great seas of Titan, comments on the proposed 2013 federal budget unveiled by President Obama.

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University of Virginia officials have introduced new programs designed to enhance the activities of the University's researchers and entrepreneurs and maximize the impact of innovative U.Va. discoveries on the global population and economy.

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In fiscal year 2010, 50 new companies were formed as a result of Canadian university research, according to a survey report published Nov. 21 by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM

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A sleek white remotely-controlled robot soon will be used by Baylor University Libraries to enrich future curriculum for children in grades K-12 across Texas and perhaps the nation. Funding for cultural aspects of education has been cut drastically in many public schools, but “cultural experiences are very important to a child’s education. We’d like to see that restored,” said Pattie Orr, vice president for information technology and dean of University Libraries at Baylor.

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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. This quote from the African American playwright and novelist, James Baldwin, was recently used by Dr. Jack P. Calareso, President of Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA when discussing the cost of higher education and students of low economic means. Referencing research that identified that 80% of the U.S.’s low income students are forced to enroll in the least selective colleges and universities, Dr. Calareso forces educational leaders, government and elected officials and others to face the facts that poorer students have limited access to more selective institutions.

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Underscoring the importance of a fully funded U.S. Food and Drug Administration in advancing progress in cancer, the American Association for Cancer Research calls on Congress to support the agency’s budget increase recently approved in the U.S. Senate.

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The recent conflict between Congress and President Barack Obama over raising the federal debt ceiling caused many economists and policymakers to fret that the financial markets would assess a higher risk premium on U.S. Treasury securities. However, a University of Arkansas finance study suggests that financial markets increasingly regard such controversies as political posturing rather than serious threats to the economy and therefore the conflicts have not recently caused higher default-risk premiums in the long-term.

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The American College of Radiology condemned $1.3 billion in Medicare imaging cuts in the Administration’s debt reduction proposal. The ACR said these cuts, on top of $5 billion in cuts the past five years, may force providers to close, restrict patient access and increase Medicare costs.

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David Coates, Ph.D., holds the Worrell Chair of Anglo-American Studies, Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University (N.C.). He previously held personal chairs at the universities of Leeds and Manchester in the U.K. He has written extensively on labor politics, contemporary political economy, and U.S. public policy. He is the author of several books, including Making the Progressive Case, Answering Back, The Labour Party and the Struggle for Socialism and Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the World Economy (translated into Chinese and South Korean). More information is available at www.davidcoates.net.