The center has an extensive portfolio
of biomedical research funding programs both on its own and together with other components of NIH, that can apply to projects in India.
«Congress has missed a major opportunity to fund advances in science and medicine that improve our nation's health and economic outlook,» said Carrie Wolinetz, a lobbyist with the Association of American Universities and president of United for Medical Research, a coalition that advocates
for biomedical research funding, in a statement.
«Former Senator (D — NY) and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she «would increase funding for scientific research,»» and «[f] ormer Governor Jeb Bush (R — FL) has called for
boosting biomedical research funding.»
David F. Arons, CEO of the National Brain Tumor Society, said in a statement that the country should be «doubling down
on biomedical research funding, not pulling back,» according to Bloomberg.
Dr. Ben Carson, when asked whether he would support
continued biomedical research funding, said: «Having been in science and research my whole life, I'm struggling to try to remember anybody I've ever known who thought they had enough funding.»
Nearly 1000 Canadian researchers are demanding that the government immediately reverse «radical» changes that the nation's
main biomedical research funder has made to its grantsmaking process, arguing that they are wreaking havoc on the science community.
Jim Woodgett of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute at Toronto, Canada's Mount Sinai Hospital has been leading an effort to change how Canada's
leading biomedical research funder does business.
««This bill will put a plan in place for the Appropriations Committee to reverse the 10 - year retrenchment in
biomedical research funding over the remaining years of the Budget Control Act,» Harkin said in July when he introduced the legislation, called the Accelerating Biomedical Research Act.»
In 2012, Tilghman co-chaired an advisory panel to the National Institutes of Health, NCI's parent and the nation's
major biomedical research funder, that suggested a glut of trainees and a dearth of academic positions were creating a dysfunctional biomedical research system.
Price, who serves as chair of the U.S. House Budget Committee, came to campus to speak to a town hall meeting on NIH and NSF funding presented by the Emory Science Advocacy Network, a graduate student group that seeks to
promote biomedical research funding through advocacy and education.
That is why the European Respiratory Society is one of four founding societies, along with the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the European Society of Cardiology and the European Cancer Organisation, of the Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe, which aims to change the current fragmented and uncoordinated approach
for biomedical research funding, by giving a single, powerful voice to the biomedical research community across Europe.
Now he stands a chance to become one of the most powerful Dems in Congress, which can only mean good news for fans of
biomedical research funding.
Senator Arlen Specter (D — PA), a champion of
biomedical research funding, has lost his bid to remain in Congress.
The discussion that follows uses the National Institutes of Health (NIH) system as example, as this is the largest source of
biomedical research funding.
A statement just in from Carrie Wolinetz, president, United for Medical Research, a coalition that works to boost
biomedical research funding.
Some top sources of
biomedical research funding are listed below to assist Medical Center investigators and staff as they identify sponsored research funding opportunities.