New dollar estimates for the White House Brain Initiative from ScienceInsider, here. If the dollar value seems familiar to loyal readers, perhaps they are remembering this.
Category: BRAIN initiative
What’s in the President’s Budget for science R&D?
The science advocacy groups aren’t too happy. Good summary here. The news for neuroscientists is a proposed increase in the Federal investment in the White House BRAIN project.
Realistically, I’m not terribly optimistic. This Congress and this President have had challenges coming together to adequately fund science.
Latest on the White House BRAIN initiative…
From ScienceInsider here. Money quote paraphrasing Janelia Farm Director Gerald Rubin:
That something-for-everyone approach, however, means that the $40 million that NIH has pledged to the project will run out long before it meets its goals
There are two central issues here I think: first, without a real “new money” appropriation of some sort, the program is always going to have just a hint of vaporware. Second, in the current sequestration environment, BRAIN funding will be part of a zero-sum game with other life sciences federal R&D investments. The two issues are related of course.
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