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December 14, 1999
NINDS, Parkinson's Advocates Testify Before Congress
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Trillions in Philanthropy Forecast Choppin Asserts Role for Private Support of Biomedicine By Rich McManus
 The billionaire down the block — the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, barely a mile down Jones Bridge Rd. from NIH — sent an emissary Nov. 17 for the third annual James A. Shannon Lecture sponsored by the NIH Alumni Association. Dr. Purnell Choppin, a virologist who has been president of HHMI since 1987 and who is stepping down from that post at the end of December, assured an audience in Masur Auditorium that HHMI's work "can only be complementary (to NIH's role) and incremental. We are not a substitute." M O R E . . . NIH Gets Second Major Budget Boost in Row
President Clinton signed an omnibus budget bill on Nov. 29 that
gives NIH its second record-breaking budget increase in a row. The
FY 2000 appropriation for NIH is $17,913,470,000, an increase of
more than $2.3 billion from FY 1999, and about $1.98 billion more
than the President's budget, which called for a 2 percent increase for
the agency. The 14.9 percent boost for FY 2000 matches the 14.9
increase realized in FY 1999, which represented NIH's biggest dollar
increase ever. | ||||
