House Publishes Appropriations Markup, Includes $47.6 Billion for NIH, $891.186 Million for NEI
On Thursday, June 30, the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Labor, Health, and Human Services and Related Agencies (LHHS) marked up the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 LHHS Funding Bill. The House bill provides an increase of 124.2 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (an increase of $15.6 billion from FY22 and $298 million […]
Vision Community Recognizes July as DRY EYE AWARENESS MONTH, Hosting Virtual Congressional Briefing about Dry Eye Disease
(Washington, D.C.) The Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) and the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) are excited to announce our seventh annual Dry Eye Awareness Month Congressional Briefing this summer. Entitled “Researching the Impact of Lifestyle on Ocular Surface Disease", the briefing will be held on Wednesday, July 13th at noon […]
House Approves ARPA-H Authorizing Legislation
On June 22, the House of Representatives passed legislation that authorizes the Advanced Research Projects Agency-H (ARPA-H). The bill, HR 5585, which passed by a vote of 336 to 85, establishes ARPA-H as a separate agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). President Biden had originally proposed that ARPA-H be established as […]
AEVR Hosts Virtual Congessional Briefing on Diabetic Retinopathy
Jennifer Sun MD, MPH (Joslin Diabetes Center/Harvard Medical School) Click here to watch the video. On May 25, the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) recognized May’s Healthy Vision Month by hosting its second virtual Research Saving Sight, Restoring Vision Congressional Briefing of 2022, entitled: NEI’s Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research (DRCR) Retinal Network: Optimizing […]
NAEVR Statement on President’s FY23 Proposed Budget for the National Eye Institute
(Washington, DC) On March 28, the Administration released the President’s FY23 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) […]
Administration Releases Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Request
On March 28, the Biden Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget request. The proposal includes a total of $62.5 billion in discretionary and mandatory funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This includes discretionary spending of $50.5 billion which includes $45.3 billion for NIH ($279 million increase over FY22 enacted), and $5 […]
Congress Passes, President Signs, Final FY2022 Omnibus Appropriations Legislation
On March 11, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, a $1.5 trillion Omnibus Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Appropriations bill, which combines all the FY22 spending bills into one package. The signing comes after Congress finalized the bill earlier in the week, with the House passing the package on March 9 and the Senate […]
ARVO Advocates Urge Congress to Finalize FY2022 Appropriations, Fund NIH for FY2023
On February 25, NAEVR organized ARVO’s virtual Advocacy Day. This event engaged members of ARVO’s Annual Meeting Planning Committee (AMPC), Advocacy Awards winners, the Advocacy and Outreach Committee (AOC) Chair Stephanie Watson, MBBS, FRANZCO, PhD, Science Communication Training Fellows (SciCommTF) Alumni and the 2021 SciCommTF. Both ARVO’s domestic and international advocates made 26 calls to […]
