As the FY 2021 appropriations gets started on Capitol Hill, FSU joined 334 other organizations in a statement – crafted by the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research – supporting a $44.7B budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The figure is a $3 billion dollar increase from FY 2020. The statement notes that bipartisan congressional support for NIH over the last few years has re-energized the biomedical research community.