Additional details from the conference report for the Labor-HHS/ Defense package that will be considered by both chambers in the near future are provided below.
As noted before, NIH would receive $39.1 billion, an increase of $2 billion. The new funding level would include $711 million designated for the agency from the 21st Century Cures Act. Within the $39.1 billion, the conference report calls for the following:
- $2.34 billion for Alzheimer’s disease reserach
- an increase of $86 million for the Precision Medicine Initiative
- an increase of $29 million for the BRAIN Initiative
- a $100-million increase for the Cancer Moonshot
Of the $711 million for the NIH that would come from the 21st Century Cures Act:
- $400 million would be for the National Cancer Institute
- National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke would each receive $57.5 million
- $186 million would be dedicated to the Precision Medicine Initiative
- $10 million for regenerative medicine
Under the conference agreement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would receive $7.95 billion and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is slated to receive $334.0 million.
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health would receive $336.3 million and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency would be funded at $5.47 billion under this bill.
Within the Department of Education, the Institute for Education Sciences would receive $615.5 million in FY2019, an increase of $2 million over the current level.