White House Plans to Nominate NCI Director to NIH Director Position
(Washington, DC) According to news reports, the White House plans to Monica M. Bertagnolli, who has been serving as Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) since last fall, to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH). If confirmed, Dr. Betagnolli would take over leadership of the agency, which has been without a permanent Director […]
NAEVR Statement on President’s FY2024 Budget
(Washington, DC) On March 9th, the Administration released the President’s FY2024 Budget Request. The National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR) supports the statement issued by the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research – of which it is a member – expressing concern that the budget request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]
President Biden Submits Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request; Moderate Increase for NIH, NEI Flat-Funded
On March 9, President Biden formally submitted his Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Budget to Congress. For FY2024, the budget proposes $48.265 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) base, an increase of $811 million, or 1.7%, over FY2023 funding levels. The National Eye Institute (NEI) would be funded at $896.55 million, the same level […]
ARVO Advocates Among First to Request FY2024 NIH/NEI Funding Increases
The participants in this year's ARVO AMPC Advocacy Day included members of ARVO's Science Communications Fellows Program along with AMPC Members On February 28, the ARVO Annual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC) held its Capitol Hill Advocacy Day, returning to in-person meetings after two years of virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As in past […]
NAEVR Statement on FY2023 Omnibus
(Washington, DC) On December 29th, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, a $1.7 trillion Omnibus Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Appropriations bill which combined all FY2023 spending bills into one package. The signing comes after Congress passed two short-term Continuing Resolutions that extended 2022 funding through December 30, 2022. Congress finalized the spending […]
Congress Passes, President Signs Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus
On December 29, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, a $1.7 trillion Omnibus Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Appropriations bill which combined all FY2023 spending bills into one package. The signing comes after Congress passed two short-term Continuing Resolutions that extended 2022 funding through December 30, 2022. Congress finalized the spending bill before […]
Congress Passes, President Signs, Second FY2023 Continuing Resolution
On December 16, President Biden signed a short-term Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Continuting Resolution (CR) that funds the government through Friday December 23. The legislation was needed because Congress remains unable to finalize FY2023 appropriations before the expiration of the first FY2023 CR that was passed by Congress last September. The short-term CR was approved […]
Congress Passes, President Signs, FY2023 Continuing Resolution
On September 30, shortly before the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, President Biden signed a FY2023 Continuing Resolution (CR) which keeps the government operating past the start of the new fiscal year on beginning October 1. The House of Representatives had passed the CR earlier that day, following Senate action the previous evening. The […]
AEVR Hosts Virtual Congressional Briefing on Dry Eye Disease
Anat Galor MD, MSPH (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine) Click here to watch the video On July 13, the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) partnered with the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) to recognize July as Dry Eye Awareness Month, hosting AEVR’s third virtual Research Saving […]
NAEVR Applauds Advancement of Labor-H Appropriations Bill, Supports Increased Funding for NIH and the National Eye Institute
The National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR) is encouraged to see the House Appropriations Committee continue to build on its promise to support strong public health and research infrastructure in the United States and urges the Committee to pass needed funded increases for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and specifically, the National […]
