National Funding

State Funding

A proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is threatening the long standing process of federal grant approval by weakening the role of scientific peer review in federal research funding decisions. Our friends at the Nebraska Academy of Science have put together a letter detailing concerns about this massive rule change and what it will mean for research. Please join us in reading and signing onto the letter here.

Also, call or write your members of Congress and share your concerns about the future of scientific research funding! Here is the letter we sent to the delegation.

Nebraska Legislators cut $5 million from biomedical research during the 2026 legislative session. With the another large budget deficit anticipated in 2027, we must prepare to continue to fight to keep research in the budget. Appropriations Committee member State Senator Robert Dover introduced an interim study, LR 399, to educate his colleagues on the economic impact of investing in research.

Learn about the importance of this research in the 2025 Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Biomedical Research Development Fund Progress Report and in our fact sheet.

With new state senators being elected in November, we don’t know who will be on the Appropriations Committee next year. Please use this interim for talk to candidate running about the importance of research.