House committee to consider NIH raise

The House Appropriations Committee will consider a bill on Wednesday that calls for a $1.3 billion funding increase for NIH in FY19 over FY18, despite a Trump administration request to decrease the agency's funding by $2.9 billion.

The subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education, and related agencies completed on Friday a markup of the bill, which would bring NIH's budget to $38.3 billion in FY19; the subcommittee subsequently sent the bill on for consideration by the full committee...