The U S research community is urgently asking the White House and Congress to take steps aimed at keeping academic research afloat during the coronavirus pandemic Four organizations representing the nation’s major research institutions and medical schools today wrote to Congressional leaders, urging them to increase research spending at federal science agencies by some 15%, or $13 billion, in order to prevent students and researchers in all scientific disciplines from going broke, to help closed laboratories re-start once the pandemic eases, and to cover other unanticipated costs to the academic research enterprise
Universities urge U.S. leaders to boost science budgets by 15%, ease rules to cope with pandemic