Congress Passes New “Laddered” Continuing Resolution in Advance of November 17 deadline
11/16/2023 - 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. … Read More
Senate Confirms Monica Bertagnolli as Director of the National Institutes of Health
11/07/2023 - 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 h… Read More
Congress Averts Government Shutdown, Passes Short-Term Continuing Resolution
10/02/2023 - Just hours before a potential shutdown of the federal government, Congress passed, and the President signed, a short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) that keeps the government operating. The CR was ne… Read More
Emerging Vision Scientists Advocate, Educate, About the Value of Vision Research
09/26/2023 - The class of the Ninth Annual Emerging Vision Scientists Day (see names in the box below) who participated in the AEVR and NAEVR events reflecting the breadth of breakthrough vision … Read More
Senate Appropriations Committee Approves FY2024 LHHS Spending Bill
07/28/2023 - On July 27, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed its Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) spending bill. The bill would fund the National Institute… Read More
NAEVR Statement on House Appropriations Committee Proposed FY2024 NIH Budget
07/17/2023 - (Washington, DC) The National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR) expresses grave concern over the proposed funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the House Labor Health … Read More
House LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee Approves FY2024 Spending Bill that Cuts NIH $2.8 Billion, Flat Funds NEI
07/14/2023 - Today, the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee passed its Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 spending bill. The markup was very contentious, with Democrats st… Read More
AEVR Congressional Briefing Focuses on Rare Eye Diseases
06/12/2023 - Featured speaker Ben Shaberman, PhD (Foundation Fighting Blindness) addresses the audience Click here to watch the video On May 25, AEVR held a Congressional Briefing … Read More
Debt Limit Increased with Expected Impacts on Non-Defense Programming
06/05/2023 - Last week, the House and Senate passed, and on June 3, 2023, the President signed, the “2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act,” an agreement to raise the nation’s debt ceiling while enacting concessions on … Read More
At ARVO Annual Meeting, Researchers Urge Congress to Support Increased Funding for NIH, NEI
05/08/2023 - NAEVR’s Dan Ignaszewski and David Epstein spoke with interested researchers about how to increase federal funding for the NEI At the 2023 ARVO Annual Meeting in New Orlea… Read More
In Senate Hearing, NIH Director Tabak States that Proposed Cuts to NIH Funding Would Have 'Chilling' Effect on Science
05/05/2023 - 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, Ph… Read More
White House Plans to Nominate NCI Director to NIH Director Position
04/20/2023 - (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 Natio… Read More
NAEVR Statement on President’s FY2024 Budget
03/16/2023 - (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… Read More
President Biden Submits Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request; Moderate Increase for NIH, NEI Flat-Funded
03/13/2023 - 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 inc… Read More
ARVO Advocates Among First to Request FY2024 NIH/NEI Funding Increases
03/06/2023 - 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 Annu… Read More
NAEVR Statement on FY2023 Omnibus
01/05/2023 - (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 spen… Read More
Congress Passes, President Signs Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus
01/03/2023 - 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… Read More
Congress Passes, President Signs, Second FY2023 Continuing Resolution
12/18/2022 - 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… Read More
Congress Passes, President Signs, FY2023 Continuing Resolution
10/03/2022 - 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… Read More
AEVR Hosts Virtual Congressional Briefing on Dry Eye Disease
07/17/2022 - 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 Ey… Read More