Dear Chair Cole, Ranking Member DeLauro, Chair Collins, and Vice Chair Murray:
As Congress resumes its work on the annual spending bills, the 455 undersigned members of the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research, representing patients, clinicians, scientists, educators, academic and research organizations, and industry, write to thank you for your longstanding, bipartisan commitment to predictable and sustained growth in medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and urge you to finalize the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) spending bill with a robust investment in the NIH. Specifically, we urge you to provide no less than the Senate Appropriations Committee-approved level of $47.2 billion for NIH, in addition to funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
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