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NIH Funding Update

$10 Billion in Aid to NIH Included in
Economic Stimulus
Yesterday, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 after Congress passed the bill on Friday. The Act, otherwise known as the Economic Stimulus Package, will contain $10 billion in aid to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Friends of NIDCR Outreach to Congress Helps Establish Amount of Aid to NIH
“This is a tremendous step toward reversing the devastating flat-funding NIH has received over the past six years,” said FNIDCR President Dr. Bruce Donoff.  “We applaud Senators Harkin, Specter and Durbin for championing NIH in this bill.”

In late December and early January, the Friends of NIDCR called on the new administration and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to include $10 billion in stimulus aid to NIH. Since that time, Friends of NIDCR members have responded to the organization’s call to outreach to their members of Congress, requesting that $10 billion in NIH funding be included in stimulus aid.

Funding for NIH Research Around the U.S.,
Create Jobs & More!
The $10 billion in funding will create an estimated 70,000 jobs. The funding will provide a boost in the economy throughout the country as NIH research is conducted in each state and in 90 percent of our nation’s congressional districts.

The breakdown of NIH funding is as follows:

• $1 billion in grants and contracts to renovate non-federal research facilities
• $300 million in grants and contracts for shared resources and equipment for grantees
• $7.4 billion to support scientific research
• $800 million National Institutes of Health Common Fund
• $500 million for high-priority repair, construction, and improvement projects at NIH facilities, Bethesda, Md.