The White House released its proposed 2012 budget yesterday with steep cuts all over the place, but small increases for NIH and other programs.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) offered a webcast of a briefing with: Director John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology;- Carl Wieman, Associate Director for Science; Shere Abbott, Associate Director for Environment; Philip Coyle, Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs and U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, Associate Director for Technology.

https://www.tvworldwide.com/events/ostp/110214/

The Globe reports on the impact here.

President Obama’s budget proposal includes increased funding for biomedical and basic science research, but scientists and institutions in Massachusetts are bracing for leaner times. House Republicans have proposed aggressive cuts to research funding agencies this year, and economic stimulus grants that have been a lifeline to laboratories are beginning to run out.

The president has requested a $1 billion, 3 percent increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health over its 2010 level, a $900 million, 13 percent increase for the National Science Foundation, and a $450 million, 9 percent increase for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.