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NIH, Related Agencies Face Flat Budget Future
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Small cuts to federal cancer funding have already made a mark on academic research, and bigger cuts may be ahead.
Since the doubling of the National Institutes of Health budget between 1997 and 2003, NIH funding has remained relatively flat. After a 1% across-the-board cut, NIH's budget of $28.6 billion for fiscal year 2006 is less than the budget for fiscal year 2005, marking the first time in 36 years that federal support for medical research has fallen in absolute