Welcome to NAEVR’s NIH/NEI Advocacy Center, where you can access our position on Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 federal funding for the National Eye Institute (NEI), view recent Legislative Updates, learn more about NEI’s accomplishments and priorities, read past NAEVR Congressional testimony, view summaries of past AEVR-sponsored Congressional Briefings on Capitol Hill (featuring NEI-sponsored research) and read about the NAEVR advocacy and AEVR educational activities in the Contributor Reports. You can also find information about special NIH-wide programs such as the Brain Initiative.
On December 29, President Biden signed a FY2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which finalized all government spending for the year, three months after the start of the fiscal year October 1. The NIH is funded at a level of $47.46 billion, an increase of 5.6% over FY2022, and the NEI is funded at a level of $896.5 million, an increase of 3.8% over FY2022.
Congressional action in Fiscal Years (FY) 2016 to 2023 has increased NEI’s enacted budget to $896.55 million—23 percent more than its pre-sequester FY2012 funding level of $702 million—meaning that over nine fiscal years it has averaged a 2.1 percent increase as compared to the average biomedical inflation rate of 2.7 percent, resulting in a loss of purchasing power. In fact, NEI’s FY2023 purchasing power is less than that in FY2012.
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Read NAEVR’s updates on National Institutes of Health and National Eye Institute Funding
Click Here to read NAEVR’s Congressional Testimony
Click here to read NAEVR’s FY2024 NIH/NEI Funding Position Paper
Last week marked Chairman Tom Cole's (R-OK) first full week as Chair of the House Appropriations Committee after Chair Kay Granger (R-TX) unexpectedly stepped down. Since assuming the chairmanship, he has already restructured several Appropriations subcommittees (with more changes expected)
Last week, Congress passed, and the President signed the final appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) funding, providing level funding for critical vision research programs, including the National Eye Institute (NEI) and the Department of Defense's (DOD) Vision Research
ARVO's Advocacy Day Participants On January 26, ARVO’s Annual Meeting Planning Committee (AMPC) held its Capitol Hill Advocacy Day, while Congress finalizes FY24 appropriations bills for the federal government, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Eye Institute
On January 18, the Senate passed a Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Continuing Resolution (CR) that keeps the government funded through early March, with the hope that Congress can finalize FY2024 funding by that date. The House of Representatives passed the legislation
On November 15, the Senate passed an “innovative laddered” Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Continuing Resolution (CR) that keeps the government operating past the expiration of the current CR on November 17. The measure now heads to the White House, where
Today the Senate confirmed Monica Bertagnolli, MD, as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), two weeks after the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee approved her nomination. The vote was 62-36. Dr. Bertagnolli had previously served
