CDRH Would Get $7 Million More Under President’s 2016 Request
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
President Obama requests $7 million more for CDRH in 2016, a modest boost over 2015’s $321 million level, but Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, calls the added funds a “non-starter” in the new Congress. The request reflects new dollars for a Precision Medicine Initiative, and a ten-fold increase in antibiotic resistance testing, a cross-agency effort called ‘Project Bioshield’, said CDC Director Thomas Frieden and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.