Lawmakers Press Appropriators For Additional NIH Funding In Budget

House lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pressuring appropriators to provide additional funding to the National Institutes of Health in the pending 2016 budget. As both chambers work to allocate the additional discretionary funding provided by the recently passed budget deal, the Senate health committee is considering including mandatory NIH funding in its upcoming parallel to the House-passed Cures legislation, which Democrats say must occur for them to support the bill. A “Dear Colleague” letter circulated by Rep...