NAEVR Releases Winter/Spring 2023 Contributor Report
President's Message NAEVR Legislative Update House and Senate FY2024 Update Defense-Related Vision Funding ARPA-H Research Saving Sight, Restoring Vision Initiative: World Glaucoma Week Congressional Briefing Emerging Vision Scientists Program Full Report
NAEVR Announces Advocacy and Educational Opportunities at the 2023 ARVO Annual Meeting
(Washington, DC) Today, the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR) announced events in which it would be engaged at the 2022 ARVO Annual Meeting, to be held April 22 – April 27, 2022, at the New Orleans Convention Center (NOCC) in New Orleans, Louisiana. NAEVR Central Booth open Sunday-Wednesday and located in the […]
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 […]
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 Announces Two Important Events Held September 21
The Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) Hosts Two Important Events Held September 21 in Conjunction with the Eighth Annual Emerging Vision Scientists Day on Capitol Hill RSVP for events to Dan Ignaszewski at 240-221-2905 or [email protected] Wednesday, September 21 Congressional Briefing: Advances in the Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Retinal Diseases […]
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 […]
