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National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Current Status

FY 2008 Funding
On December 26, 2007, President Bush signed the "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008" [P.L. 110-161], which provides NIH with an appropriation of $29.229 billion, an increase of $329 million (1.1 percent) over FY 2007. More>>

FY 2009 Funding
On February 4, President Bush sent his Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 budget to Congress. The President's budget requests $29.230 billion in discretionary budget authority for NIH through the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, which freezes the agency's budget at the FY 2008 appropriation level. The budget also assumes $78 million though the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee for the transfer from the Superfund to the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), $150 million in mandatory appropriations for type I diabetes, and $8 million in evaluation funds for the National Library of Medicine (NLM), for a program level of $29.465 billion, the same as in FY 2008. More>>

NIH Salary Cap
The "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008" [P.L. 110-161] retains the cap on salaries on NIH, SAMHSA, and AHRQ extramural grants at the current Executive Level I rate ($191,300 in 2008). As in previous years, the Administration's FY 2009 budget proposes to reduce the cap, to Executive Level II ($172,200 in 2008). More>>

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Related Resources

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - NIH's Role
• House Member Letter to Budget Committee-2/28/08
• Summary of the President's FY 2009
• National Institutes of Health
• NIH Office of Budget
• Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research
• House Dear Colleague NIH Letter, April 3, 2009

AAMC Documents

• FY 2008 Appropriations Table
• FY 2007 Appropriations Table
• FY 2006 Appropriations Table
• FY 2005 Appropriations Table