The US Senate last night passed a spending bill for fiscal 2019 that would boost the National Institutes of Health’s budget by $2 billion to $39.1 billion — a 5.4 percent increase over the agency’s current funding level.
The appropriations package was approved by an 85 to 7 vote, and includes an additional $425 million for Alzheimer’s research for a total of $2.3 billion; $429.4 million for the BRAIN initiative, a $29 million increase; and $376 million for the All of Us precision medicine study, $86 million more than in FY 2018.
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