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Biomedical research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and performed at research universities helps assure U.S. leadership in the life sciences revolution of the 21st Century. Putting NIH on a sustained pathway to restore its purchasing power after a decade worth of loss to inflation and budget cuts is critical to sustaining the extraordinary progress in the improvement of human health of the past decades. Investment in NIH will continue to create jobs and strengthen the workforce, improve the lives—and quality of life—of millions of current and future patients, and help assure continuing U.S. economic and national security.

Sustained investment in biotechnology and genomics is crucial to the development of novel therapies for diseases, including: cancer, Alzheimer's, autism, and diabetes. The NIH also responds rapidly to public health emergencies and in support of biodefense, such as in the case of Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19.

 

National Institutes of Health (NIH) AAU FY20 Funding Brief

AAU urges Congress to provide at least $41.6 billion for the National Institutes of Health in FY20.
Fact Sheets | Federal Budget | FY20 | National Institutes of Health

AAU, Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Submit FY 2020 Recommendations for NIH

AAU along with 300 organizations and institutions signed in support of the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research's FY2020 recommendation statement to Congress of at least $41.6 billion for NIH.
Agency Budgets | Statements | FY20 | National Institutes of Health

UMR, AAU Urge House Leadership to Raise the BCA Budget Caps

United for Medical Research, of which AAU is a member, sent a letter to House Leadership urging them to reach a bipartisan budget agreement to raise the non-defense discretionary spending dictated by the 2011 Budget Control Act.
Agency Budgets | Letters | Federal Budget | FY20 | National Institutes of Health

UMR, AAU Urge Senate Leadership to Raise the BCA Budget Caps

United for Medical Research, of which AAU is a member, sent a letter to Senate Leadership urging them to reach a bipartisan budget agreement to raise the non-defense discretionary spending dictated by the 2011 Budget Control Act.
Agency Budgets | Letters | Federal Budget | FY20 | National Institutes of Health

AAU FY19 Funding Priorities Table

Learn how the President's FY19 Budget Request will impact AAU's funding priorities.
Fact Sheets | Federal Budget | FY19 | Appropriations Tables | National Institutes of Health | National Science Foundation | Department of Defense | Department of Energy | NASA | Department of Education | National Endowment for the Humanities | Agriculture & Food Research Initiative

Nobel Laureates and Science Community Leaders Comment on Shutdown's Harm to American Science

Thirty-one Nobel Laureates and Science Community Leaders including AAU President Mary Sue Coleman sent a letter to the President of the United States and Members of Congress to call attention to the harm done to American Science during the partial shutdown of the federal government.
Letters | Federal Budget | National Institutes of Health | National Science Foundation | Department of Energy | NASA

AAU, ACE, and APLU Write to Congress in Support of Ethically-Conducted Research Using Fetal Tissue

The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) wrote a letter to Congress in support of ethically-conducted research that includes the use of fetal tissue. 
Letters | Research Administration & Regulation | National Institutes of Health

AAU Submits Joint Statement to NIH on Proposed Changes to NIH Guidelines

The Association of American Medical Colleges, Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and Council on Government Relations collectively wrote recommendations to the proposed changes to the NIH Guidelines for research involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules.
Letters | Research Administration & Regulation | National Institutes of Health

AAU Thanks Appropriators for Efforts, Urges Completion of Other FY19 Bills

AAU President Mary Sue Coleman today wrote to House and Senate Appropriations leaders to applaud their efforts in securing increased higher education and research investments in FY19 and urge completion of the remaining FY19 appropriations bills after the midterm elections.
Agency Budgets | Letters | Student Aid | FY19 | National Institutes of Health | National Science Foundation | Department of Defense | NASA | Department of Education | National Endowment for the Humanities

Associations Urge House to Approve Labor-HHS-Education and Defense Minibus

AAU and several other associations wrote to House leadership to urge passage of the FY19 Labor-HHS-Education and Defense spending bill. The letter says the associations are grateful for the “meaningful increases for the programs that make college accessible and promote medical research.”
Letters | Student Aid | Federal Budget | FY19 | National Institutes of Health | Department of Defense