Capitol Hill

I spent yesterday on Capitol Hill mostly on behalf of the Society for Neuroscience. It’s finally warming up in Washington and so the flowers and trees were in full bloom. The message to our legislators was to support biomedical research, particularly through a 6.7% increase in the NIH budget. That’s the amount that will simply allow the NIH to maintain its “science purchasing” power against the biomedical inflation index (which is much higher typically than the economy’s inflation).

I also got to remind staffers about he upcoming Decade of the Mind symposium here at George Mason. There is a lot of excitement building for that event.

Jim