Out: NIH budget cuts. In: Alzheimer’s R&D as lawmakers boost proposed ’19 spending to $2.3B
The US Senate is feeling generous toward medical researchers, and that may soon translate into a big hike in spending on Alzheimer’s research — the most frustrating field in R&D today.
Lawmakers passed a 2019 budget proposal on Thursday that gives the NIH a 5% bump in its budget, with an extra $425 million directed specifically at Alzheimer’s. That would give the agency $2.3 billion for Alzheimer’s, which the AP notes is four times as much as what the NIH spent on the memory wasting disease four years ago.
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