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November 17, 1998
Prives To Give Pittman Lecture
NIH'er Fifth in World in Finding Way Around
Neurologist Jonathan Cole Lectures on Face
Framingham Heart Study Celebrates 50 Years
OEO Approaches Diversity through Literature
Shuttle System Improvements Planned
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
A Boon to All NIH Absorbs Biggest Dollar Increase Ever -- $2.03 Billion By Rich McManus
While there have been larger percentage increases in NIH's budget
in decades past -- mostly during the Shannon era in the early sixties,
when new institutes began proliferating -- the $2.03 billion addition
to the FY 1998 level signed by President Clinton on Oct. 21 is by
far the largest dollar increase in agency history. The 14.9 percent
bump-up brings the FY 1999 appropriation to $15.652 billion, a
figure hailed jubilantly in all corners of the agency.
NIAID Celebrates 50 Years This year, NIAID celebrates 50 years of "Advancing Knowledge and Improving Health" with a commemorative scientific symposium on Thursday, Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Natcher Conference Center auditorium. Everyone is invited to hear distinguished investigators from NIH and elsewhere speak about current knowledge and future research goals related to the institute's emphasis areas: allergy, immunology and infectious diseases.
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