SNM Outgoing President Robert Atcher Discusses Isotope Supply and Molecular Imaging

by Kathy Mahdoubi, Senior Correspondent | June 13, 2009

The competition for funding for nuclear medicine research at the advanced stage, when we would be approaching NIH to support that activity, has been challenging. Inflation adjusted, that funding has been going down fairly dramatically...probably about 25 percent. With the change in administration, they're talking about increasing support for research funded by NIH. We are hoping that will actually come to pass. It's certainly going to be evident when we see the appropriations for the fiscal year 2010.

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