funding news from FierceBioResearcher

The drumbeat of criticism over the impact of flat-line budgets at the NIH on the U.S. research community continues to build. In a recent article for the Star-Ledger, scientists report that original Read more...

Families USA has crunched the numbers on NIH research grants, and says that several years of flat funding have crippled research efforts, damaged U.S. economic activity and threatens to pull the U.S. Read more...

For the past 15 years Dr. Francis Collins has been a leader of the genetics revolution in the U.S. As head of the National Human Genome Research Institute since 1993, he helped guide the Human

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With an eye to sponsoring groundbreaking research, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is funding a $600 million effort to back advanced medical research by 56 of the country's most notable Read more...

New Technology Solidus Biosciences is one of several new companies that are out to commercialize new chip technology that can do away with the need to sacrifice thousands of rats and mice each year Read more...

The NIH is opening its purse to fund $438 million in new research projects that have the potential to make groundbreaking progress against some of the world's toughest medical challenges. Dr. Alan Read more...

After seeing an ambitious $3 billion effort to back stem cell research get tied up in court, California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine finally got on track with the announcement of 72 research grants totaling $45 million for the next two years. Next month the state is expected to announce $80 million in grants, a move that will make it the single largest backer of embryonic stem cell work in the nation, far outstripping the limited federal support that flows to the field. The money …

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The Stem Cell Summit wrapped up two days of discussions in San Diego with a focus on some of the therapies that are either already in use or close to it. There's already a small market to use stem cells to make synthetic discs for the spine, but a lineup of companies in the adult stem cell field--led by stem cells drawn from bone marrow, blood and fat--are pushing experimental …

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A variety of groups are criticizing efforts by the Bush administration to slice spending at the National Cancer Institute by 1 percent. The move would represent the second year in a row for cuts at the NCI. Top researchers say that the strategy could ultimately undercut the quality of research in oncology at the same time progress in the field is cutting the number of deaths from cancer in the U.S. for the first time. The head of the NCI, John Niederhuber ( …

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Shell game at the NIH
There are some big changes being made in the way that the government funds research. As I reported in yesterday's …

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