Trump signs spending bill with $2B NIH increase
President Donald Trump signed a FY19 appropriations bill into law on Sept. 28 that includes a $2 billion increase for NIH, bringing its budget to $39.1 billion. The legislation, H.R. 6157, also includes a stopgap provision that keeps FDA running at its FY18 spending level until Dec. 7.
The additional NIH funding will go towards large programs such as the All of Us precision medicine initiative, the Cancer Moonshot initiative and the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, as well as boosting research into Alzheimer’s disease, opioids and antibiotic resistance research (see "Congress to Allocate Additional $2 Billion to NIH")...