Boston Globe editors weighed in today in an editorial on the dismal NIH funding situation. It calls on Congress to increase NIH funding by at least 6.7 percent a year for three years, enough to make up for losses due to inflation. Nice to see the Globe sticking up for Boston research which relies so heavily on NIH funding.

And glad to see Harvard folks on Capital Hill. The chair of Harvard Medical School’s cell bio department, Joan Brugge, testified last week

that years of flat/declining funding was “damaging the infrastructure…” She said she fears that “we are losing the momentum and the dedicated careers that were fueled by the previous federal investment.”

Brugge, along with several of biology’s other big heavy-hitters, contributed to a politician-friendly report calling for more funding for the NIH.