FY 2014 National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
FY 2014 funding for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) would remain essentially even with the FY 2012 budget under the request the Obama Administration sent to Congress.
FY 2012 funding for NIBIB was $337.7 million. The current budget – FY 2013 – is approximately equal to this amount, less a mandated reduction of about 5.0 percent required by sequestration
Funding for the National Institutes of Health, of which NIBIB is a part, would increase by 1.5 percent or $471.0 million in FY 2014 as compared to FY 2012.
Full details about the NIBIB request are available in a 27-page budget document
Of note in the budget document:
“NIBIB funding policies give special consideration to applications that bridge and integrate the life and physical sciences, and also focus on enhancing support for new investigators.”
“The convergence of physical and engineering sciences with medicine and life sciences will advance basic research and medical care in many ways. Already, improved targeting tools allow researchers to precisely deliver stem cells to specific tissues. Better chemistry allows vaccines to remain stable longer and without refrigeration. Application of advanced fluid dynamics to blood flow is providing a new understanding of the mechanics of blood clot formation. Advances in nanotechnology are providing new ways to deliver medications. High throughput engineering techniques are being applied to analysis of single cells, in hopes of revealing disease mechanisms at the cellular level. Engineering new approaches to image-sharing is redefining the way that medical images are shared between medical centers.”