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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.

UMR releases a Recovery Act success story

January 20, 2010

This week UMR released a detailed report on how Recovery Act funding of medical research through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is at work across the country in the service of better health and a healthier economy.
Investing in Recovery and Discovery documents how the $10.5 billion infusion in 2009 and 2010 in biomedical innovation is creating [...]

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New report finds decline in biomedical research funding

January 15, 2010

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association  reports that the rate of increase in  research funding slowed between 2003 and 2008, and in absolute terms, the level of funding from the NIH and associated  industriesdecreased by 2% in 2008.
The authors of the study, led by neurologist Ray Dorsey M.D., used [...]

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Time magazine: The age of epigenetics has arrived

January 11, 2010

In Time magazine’s cover story this week, John Cloud explores the potential of epigenetics.
The article highlights the past and current biomedical research projects pushing this important issue in biology forward, and concludes with the statement that “the age of epigenetics has arrived.”
Researchers in the epigenetics field study changes in gene activity that get passed down [...]

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NIH announces new Recovery Act grants

January 6, 2010

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) rang in 2010 with exciting new opportunities for biomedical researchers.  On December 28, the NIH announced new three-year grants made possible through last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
According to the NIH, the grants fall under a program entitled “NIH Director’s Opportunity for Research in Five Thematic Areas” and will be awarded to researchers proposing to develop [...]

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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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