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United for Medical Research, a coalition of leading research institutions, patient and health advocates and private industry have joined together to seek steady increases in federal funding for the National Institutes of Health.

Gephardt and Brennan Advocate for Medical Research at the Aspen Health Forum

October 23, 2009

During the annual Aspen Health Forum, the Hon. Dick Gephardt and the CEO of Astra-Zeneca, David Brennan, joined forces to highlight the importance of funding medical research.
Both research advocates spoke of the need for translational research (i.e. the use of basic scientific discoveries by pharmacetical companies and biotech companies) and the need for better science [...]

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2009 Nobel Prize Winners

October 9, 2009

This week the Nobel Prize was awarded to six innovative scientists for their groundbreaking work in medicine and chemistry. On the medicine front, Elizabeth H. Blackburn from University of California, San Francisco, Carol W. Greider from Johns Hopkins University and Jack W. Szostak from Harvard Medical School won for their work which uncovered how chromosomes [...]

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President Obama announces $5 billion in ARRA Funding at Work through NIH

September 30, 2009

This morning President Barack Obama joined with Dr. Francis Collins, NIH Director, and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to announce $5 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment dollars invested in the nation’s most exciting and promising life sciences projects. These projects, currently underway in every state across the country, are creating an estimated 50,000 jobs while [...]

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5 Opportunities for NIH

September 10, 2009

Dr. Francis Collins outlined his priorities for the NIH in a first-of-a-kind Town Hall meeting between an NIH Director, the agency’s staff and the broader NIH advocacy community. To a packed auditorium in the NIH Bethesda Headquarters, Collins laid out five “opportunities” for NIH science:
1) the ability of genomics and high impact technologies [...]

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2011 Cliff Keeps Collins Awake at Night

August 18, 2009

THE DAILY BIOTECHNOLOGY NEWSPAPER
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Volume 20, No. 158
Collins: End of Stimulus Funds Could Send NIH Off Cliff in ‘11
By Donna Young, Washington Editor
BETHESDA, Md. – Newly sworn-in National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins Monday laid out an aggressive agenda for the agency’s 27 institutes and centers, including a greater focus on [...]

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Statement by United for Medical Research on House Passage of the Labor-HAS-Education Appropriation Bill

July 28, 2009

United for Medical Research (UMR) commends Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) for moving an appropriations bill through the House of Representatives that contains a increases above the President’s budget request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A 3.1 percent increase during these challenging economic times, demonstrates a genuine national commitment to [...]

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The NIH Story on Wikipedia

July 28, 2009

NIH is ramping up its role in communicating about the scope and value of life science projects, health information and new discoveries through wikipedia entries. Today, the Washington Post reports on a joint meeting of the minds between wikipedia and NIH.

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NIH Funding Translating to Cures

July 21, 2009

NIH awards $21.5M to Texas university for translational research
Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 1:37pm CDT
Houston Business Journal
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has been awarded a five-year, $21.5 million grant by the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health.
The Clinical Translational Sciences Award will fund a new initiative aimed at [...]

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Rock Stars of Science

July 11, 2009

Rock Stars of Science, a new public service campaign underwritten by Geoffrey Beene Gives Back, is bringing rock stars together with some of the nation’s leading medical researchers to advocate for greater research funding.
Rock S.O.S aims to bridge the recognition gap for Americans and scientists.
Sheryl Crow, Josh Groban, Seal, will.i.am and Joe Perry are working [...]

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