Biological Sciences

Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC periodically provides campus with a Washington Update report. In this report:

The 2026 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), the Department of Defense’s (DOD) premier medical research meeting, recently released a call for abstracts to present at its annual symposium. The joint symposium offers a unique opportunity for interested researchers to engage with program managers and DOD officials, who are often hard to reach virtually without a prior connection, on military biomedical and...

Lewis-Burke Associates has provided an updated and consolidated analysis of fiscal year (FY) 2026 funding, representing all 12 final FY 2026 appropriations bills that have now been introduced by Congress. Funding analyzed as part of this document is for major federal agencies of most relevance to the research, technology, education, workforce, and healthcare communities, and new updates to the document now include information about the Department of Defense, NIH,...

On January 8, the House passed in a bipartisan vote of 397 to 28 a $175 billion “minibus” spending package (H.R. 6938) that includes three fiscal year (FY) 2026 appropriations bills: Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS); Energy and Water Development (E&W); and Interior and Environment (Interior). The Senate plans to consider the minibus package starting today. This spending package funds many federal science, workforce, and economic development agencies of interest to the research community, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE), the National...