Congress doles out $300m to fund diabetes research

Congress today approved a two-year extension of the Special Diabetes Program, giving the National Institutes of Health $300 million to fund research into new therapies and technologies for people with Type I diabetes. The program, which has historically garnered bipartisan support, was last reauthorized in 2015 when lawmakers budgeted $150 million over two years for the program. That funding ran out at the end of September. At the time, Congress approved a short-term patch that would fund the program through the end of March but advocacy groups pushed back, arguing that temporary support was not enough. Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery Business News. The post Congress doles out $300m to fund diabetes research appeared first on MassDevice.
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