"Thank you for your longstanding, bipartisan commitment to predictable and sustained growth in medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As Congress returns to session, the nearly 400 undersigned members of the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research, representing patients, clinicians, scientists, educators, academic and research organizations, and industry, urge you to finalize the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) spending bill by the end of the calendar year with a robust investment in the NIH. Specifically, we urge you to provide no less than the Senate Appropriations Committee-approved level of $48.9 billion for NIH, in addition to funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)."
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