Description: This study was prompted by discussions between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) about future scientific areas for the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research Medical Applications and Sciences Program.1 OMB recommended that program functions be retained, but that funds for the program be reduced beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2006. However, they agreed to delay decisions about program restructuring pending a state-of-the-science review of nuclear medicine from the National Academies. In FY 2006, Congress passed and the President signed an 85 percent ($23 million) reduction in the funding for the DOE budget for basic nuclear medicine and molecular imaging research, leaving only support for the neuroimaging program at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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