Funding Recommendations for NIH and NIDDK House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Labor-Health and Human Services-Education-and Related Agencies by E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD on behalf of the Friends of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases May 19, 2021

Chairwoman DeLauro, Ranking Member Cole, and Members of the Subcommittee:

"My name is Dale Abel. As an endocrinologist and biomedical researcher myself, I am proud to represent the 35 patient, physician, and research organizations that are members of the Friends of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). We want first to thank you for your ongoing bipartisan investment in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We are here today to ask you to support our FY 2022 NIH funding recommendation of at least $46.111 billion, a $3.177 billion increase over the comparable FY 2021 funding level for the NIH, which would allow for the NIH’s base budget to keep pace with the biomedical research and development price index of 2.3 % and allow meaningful growth of 5%. We also request a proportionate increase for the NIDDK of at least $157 million for a total of $2.289 billion in FY 2022."

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