Lost Year Looms for Medical Research Under Stopgap Spending Bill

Young scientists could drop out of medical research and biomedical progress could derail for years thanks to spending restrictions imposed on NIH as part of stopgap funding measures.

The Senate is expected to take up soon a spending bill (H.R. 8337) to keep the government operating through Dec. 11. While the continuing resolution will keep the government open, the National Institutes of Health can’t initiate any new projects and may reduce existing grants until Congress passes a final labor-health and human services spending bill.

“They don’t know how much money they have to work with, so they are ...