Sentences with phrase «basic research funding»

The best way to remain preeminent, argued Representative Zoe Lofgren (D - CA), is to maintain support for the full spectrum of basic research funded by NSF.

The request is consistent with a plan Pentagon officials drew up in 2007 to substantially increase basic research funded by the agency over a 5 - year period.

The House, for instance, called for an increase of 2.6 % in basic research funding and fiscal 2018 spending levels of $ 35.6 billion.

It would increase basic research funding $ 900 million over 2016 levels for work at the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

«The agency's move meant that six federal agencies that provide the bulk of the nation's basic research funding now have public access policies required by a 2013 White House order.

And although the document is attracting praise from many industry and research advocacy groups, some are concerned that it neglects basic research funding while extending overly generous terms to drug companies.

These funds aim to bridge the so - called valley of death between basic research funded by NIH and evidence of commercial applicability strong enough to attract private capital.

For basic research funding, researchers should look to DOE's Basic Energy Sciences program — part of DOE's Office of Science — and specifically its Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.

They expect to pay for that increase by cutting an equivalent amount from nondefense discretionary spending — the part of the budget that includes major basic research funders.

Funding for the study came from the National Institutes of Health (R01DK093587 and R01DK101379; R01DK092605; R01DK078056), the Naman Family Fund for Basic Research, the Curtis Hankamer Basic Research Fund, the American Diabetes Association (# 7 -13-JF-61 and # 1 -15-BS-184), the American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship, Wellcome Trust (WT098012) and BBSRC (BB / K001418 / 1).

Since it was founded in the mid-1980s, MURI has become a mainstay of DOD's basic research programs, accounting for about one - quarter of the $ 1 billion in basic research funding that the Pentagon spends annually at U.S. universities.

The National Science Foundation is another source of basic research funding in high - temperature superconductivity, mainly through its Division of Materials Research, which is part of the Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences.

Federal spending remains the leading source of basic research funding in the United States.

The danger is that basic research funding will suffer as a result.

Because the President's base budget had sought billion - dollar cuts to NIH and NASA, as well as a deep cut to DOD basic research, it tallied up to a more than two percent reduction to basic research funding, and a smaller cut to applied research.

Without the fundamental knowledge provided through basic research, we're limiting our innovation potential,» said Zuber, who co-authored an op - ed with AAAS CEO Rush Holt in support of basic research funding that was published Wednesday in The Hill.

The basic research funded by Syngenta within the framework of the «Plant Decision Making» Project at the Zurich - Basel Plant Science Center also provides practical findings for the agriculture sector.

And for the first time since World War II, government funding has fallen to less than half of all basic research funding, according to Science magazine, putting pressure on labs to commercialize their discoveries more quickly.