Petition to Increase NIH Budget

From: Shiva Bhowmik
Date: 6 March 2012 20:08


Dear CCP4-ers,

Sorry for the offline topic. I would like to bring this the following petition:

Dear Colleagues,

I wanted to bring your attention to a petition (see link below) started at WhiteHouse.gov<http://WhiteHouse.gov/> by our colleague Dr. Steve Meltzer at Johns Hopkins that calls for an increase for the NIH budget. As you know, the President recently announced his proposed FY2013 budget, which called for a flat NIH budget. After factoring in inflation, flat funding is an equivalent of a funding cut. Research by biomedical community is already heavily stressed, with NIH funding rates at a record low. Many of you would be interested in supporting this petition, which provides a unique opportunity to gain the attention of the White House. If the petition receives 25,000 signatures by March 18th, the White House will review it. We currently have over 12,000 signatures.

These are troubling times for the research community and medical progress is at great risk.  Investigators, their institutions, Private research funding organizations, patient advocate groups, and the biotech/pharma sector all have a common goal - the betterment of human health. NIH funding is a critical component for the biomedical research pipeline and increasing funding for the NIH should be a goal we can all work together on. Please help us in this endeavor and sign and share this petition with your friends, family, and colleagues.

The petition link:

http://wh.gov/81O

best regards,

Kerri

Kerri A. Mowen, Ph.D.