NIH funding is on the rise. Here ’s who’s winning in Houston

Despite President Donald Trump ’s threat to slash the funding for the National Institutes of Health, its new budget is larger than ever. In 2017, the NIH doled out a record $26.3 billion in research grants to U.S. applicants in 2017. And for fiscal 2018, the agency now has a $34.8 billion budget — thanks to Trump’s signat ure on March 23, which barely averted another government shutdown — marking a record high for the agency after years of volatility following the recession and the usual…
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