The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation make out pretty well in the FY2010 federal budget request that President Barack Obama released today (Feb. 26).

Should the president gets his 2010 druthers (which is unlikely after the budget grinds through Congress later this year), NSF will get a 16% increase over its 2008 funding levels with a budget of more than $7 billion, and NIH would get $6 billion towards cancer research "as part of the Administration's multi-year commitment to double cancer research funding," budget documents read.

The budget does not indicate a total sum for NIH in 2010, but the Department of Health and Human Services would get a total of $76.8 billion under the president's plan -- an almost 9% boost to HHS's 2008 budget, but a 2% drop from the amount HHS is projected to get for 2009 under the omnibus appropriations bill recently passed by the House.


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