Announcements
Chancellor Fingerhut in Washington, Calling for Increase in Biomedical Sciences Funding
March 11, 2008
Jill Rafael-Fortney
Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut participated in a press conference and Congressional hearings on March 11 surrounding the release of, "A Broken Pipeline? Flat Funding of the NIH Puts a Generation of Science at Risk." The report is co-authored by The Ohio State University, Harvard University, Brown University, Duke University, Partners Healthcare, the University of California Los Angeles, and Vanderbilt University, and warns that five consecutive years of flat funding the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is deterring promising young researchers and threatening the future of Americans' health. Representing the University System of Ohio, Chancellor Fingerhut joined the consortium of research universities to call on Congress to reverse a recent real-dollar decline in NIH research grants and increase funding for the biomedical sciences.
Jill Rafael-Fortney, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at The Ohio State University, and who is working on a new treatment for heart failure, testified before Congress on the impact of flat funding on research.
