Congressional Funding for CMT

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Go to the link to look at Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition,

and Disease Categories (RCDC) * find CMT * on the left, scroll over to FY 2011

and 2012 for amount of funding. You can also see past years. CMT is considerably

low consistently.

http://report.nih.gov/rcdc/categories/

Table Published: February 14, 2011

This table displays the annual support level for various research, condition,

and disease categories based on grants, contracts, and other funding mechanisms

used across the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

At the request of Congress, the NIH embarked on a process to provide better

consistency and transparency in the reporting of its funded research. This new

process, implemented in 2008 through the Research, Condition, and Disease

Categorization (RCDC) system, uses sophisticated text data mining (categorizing

and clustering using words and multiword phrases) in conjunction with NIH-wide

definitions used to match projects to categories. The definitions are a list of

terms and concepts selected by NIH scientific experts to define a research

category. The research category levels represent the NIH's best estimates based

on the category definitions.

The NIH does not expressly budget by category. The annual estimates reflect

amounts that change as a result of science, actual research projects funded, and

the NIH budget. The research categories are not mutually exclusive. Individual

research projects can be included in multiple categories so amounts depicted

within each column of this table do not add up to 100 percent of NIH-funded

research.

Consistent with the Administration's emphasis on transparency, two separate

columns are used to distinguish FY 2009 and FY 2010 actual support funded from

American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) accounts from projects funded by

regular NIH appropriations.

The FY2007 data were produced from a reporting process historically used by NIH.

The technical elements of the previous reporting process did not have the

ability to produce uniform results and led to wide variability in the way

research categories were coded. This process caused inconsistencies in reporting

data. RCDC use of data mining improves the consistency and eliminates the wide

variability in defining the research categories reported. The table shows

historical data for FY2007 and data produced with the new RCDC methodology for

FY2007 through FY2010. The FY 2011-2012 estimates are based on RCDC actual data.

Total Number of Research/Disease Areas: 229