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Press Kit: NIH Funding

Medical schools and teaching hospitals receive funding for research from federal and state agencies, private industry, and philanthropic efforts. By far the largest source of federal research funding comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—the federal government's medical research agency. In fact, more than 50 percent of all extramural research (grants to outside scientists) sponsored by the NIH is conducted by AAMC-member medical schools and teaching hospitals.

On the Issue

National Institutes of Health FY 2010 Budget Request

Group Thank You Letter on NIH to Obey and Tiahrt (PDF, 5 pages - July 17, 2009)

AAMC Thank You Letter to Chairman Obey (PDF, 1 page - July 14, 2009)

Ad Hoc Group Letter on FY 2010 Appropriations (PDF, 2 pages - July 8, 2009)

AAMC Says Economic Stimulus Will Improve Nation's Physical and Fiscal Health (News Release - Feb. 13, 2009)

Related Resources

ResearchMeansHope.org
A coalition of the nation's medical schools, teaching hospitals, universities, patient groups, research companies and organizations launched a new effort to urge Congress to enact significant, annual increases in funding for the National Institutes of Health.

Discoveries and Innovations in Patient Care and Research Database

Ad Hoc Group Testimony before House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee (March 18, 2009)

Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research—A coalition of organizations in support of increased funding for the NIH

Within Our Grasp—Or Slipping Away? Assuring a New Era of Scientific and Medical Progress (PDF, 24 pages)

Medical Research and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

With the passage of ARRA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was awarded an unprecedented $10.4 billion to fund new and ongoing research initiatives. The Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research began a series of congressional briefings in June 2009 to discuss how the NIH is using the funds to stimulate the economy and advance medical research.

Briefing with Thomas R. Insel, M.D.
(Webcast, July 10, 2009, 61 mins, 34 secs)

Briefing with Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
(Webcast, June 1, 2009, 60 mins, 12 secs)

Fullfilling the Promise Newsletter
(PDF, 3 pages, June 2009)

Fulfulling the Promise

The AAMC launched in June 2005 the Fulfilling the Promise campaign to build awareness of the collaboration between America's medical schools, teaching hospitals, and the NIH and to report on the progress academic medicine is making in research efforts to improve the nation's health.

Fulfilling the Promise Hill Briefings