In Senate Hearing, NIH Director Tabak States that Proposed Cuts to NIH Funding Would Have ‘Chilling’ Effect on Science
On May 4, the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee held a hearing with National Institutes of Health (NIH) Acting Director Lawrence Tabak, DDS, PhD, regarding the Administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 NIH budget request. Dr. Tabak was accompanied by several members of his senior team (see box below). Opening […]
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 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 […]
