If American Taxes Pay For New Super Drugs, Why Does Big Pharma Charge U.S. Taxpayers Twice That Of Europeans?

Something Stinks About How NIH  Supported Big Pharma Discriminates In Drug Prices Against American Citizens Who Paid For The New Drug Development In The First Place - Don White

Research for the People

The NIH invests over $31.2* billion annually in medical research for the American people.

More than 80% of the NIH's funding is awarded through almost 50,000 competitive grants to more than 325,000 researchers at over 3,000 universities, medical schools, and other research institutions in every state and around the world.

About 10% of the NIH's budget supports projects conducted by nearly 6,000 scientists in its own laboratories, most of which are on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

President's Budget Request

• Budget Statements—testimony by the NIH Director and Institute and Center Directors
• History of NIH Appropriations—from 1938

Funding for Diseases, Conditions, Research Areas

• Funding levels for diseases, conditions, and research areas, based on actual grants, contracts, research conducted at NIH, and other mechanisms of support.

Grants Awarded

• Funded Organization—universities and research organizations around the nation receiving research grants and contracts
• Budget and Spending—funding for grants and contracts
• Success Rates—annual percentage of research grant applications that are funded
• RePORTER—a searchable database of NIH-funded research projects

Related Links

• Office of Budget—NIH budget management, policy, planning, analysis, formulation and presentation
• Office of Financial Management—provides leadership and direction for NIH financial management activities
• Office of Extramural Research—provides guidance to NIH Institutes for research and training conducted outside the NIH
• Office of Intramural Research—coordinates research conducted directly by NIH scientists
• NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools—A one-stop shop for reports on the NIH research portfolio

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* This amount excludes the $10 billion appropriated to NIH in 2009 for short-term stimulus purposes under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) available for obligation across a two-year timeframe until September 30, 2010.

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"The NIH has been the single biggest supporter of our lab. It enables us to do research. The money gives you the freedom to come up with the ideas you come with —and those ideas can hopefully change the world in a better way."
Robert Langer, Sc.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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This page was last reviewed on May 18, 2010