Blog: Occupy ME: NIH Funding for ME Goes Down in 2018

[Andy]

Fiscal year 2018 is over, so now we can answer the question of whether ME research funding at NIH would go up or down. As I predicted back in July, the answer is down.

Here’s the TL;DR version:

• NIH funding for ME research decreased 17% in 2018.
• Funding for non-Center grants will decrease an additional 30% in 2019 unless NIH funds enough new grants to replace the expired ones.
• NIH’s funding is now heavily concentrated at a small number of institutions.
• NIH’s ancillary activities are not sufficient to overcome the funding problem.
• Some of the most important contributors are missing in action.
• NIH must stop blaming people with ME for the low number of research applications.
• Given that NIH funding has decreased, how should we respond?

http://occupyme.net/2018/10/21/nih-funding-for-me-goes-down-in-2018/

 

[Roy S]

That sucks.

 

[James]

"We are going to ramp this up." - NIH director Francis Collins
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...ndrome-research-gains-funding-and-controversy