Commemorative Book Letter from Mary Woolley

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25th Anniversary Commemorative Book Letter from Mary Woolley

In the late 1980s, visionary champions for medical research convened to address the widening gap between the extraordinary promise of research and the less-than-robust support it was then garnering from the public and its elected representatives. These leaders believed that allowing this gap to continue would be detrimental to Americans for years to come. They resolved to form a national alliance with a broad membership base and a singular focus on advocacy for research.

Today, the Research!America alliance represents the voices of more than100 million Americans from academia, independent research institutes and hospitals, scientific societies, state and local organizations, voluntary health groups, and pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device manufacturing industries. In partnership with our members, we have successfully secured more funding for our nation’s federal health agencies; advocated for smarter policies that empower, rather than impede, private sector innovators; and most importantly, helped unleash scientific opportunity, leading to unprecedented medical progress.

Our work is far from over. In the next 25 years we will neither lower our expectations nor shirk from the challenge of ensuring that our voices are heard when it comes to making research for health a much higher national priority.

I thank the members of our alliance, current and emeritus Board members, our partners, BE WELL. and every champion of research for the work you have done and continue to do to realize the vision of our founders. With your ongoing support, I am confident we will NOT A WISH. A PROMISE. ensure that progress continues unabated and that research to improve health becomes the number one priority that Americans expect and deserve. For more than 150 years, a very special passion has driven the people of Merck. Our goal is to develop medicines, vaccines, consumer care and animal health innovations that will improve the lives of millions. Still, we know there is much more to be done. And we’re doing it, with a long-standing commitment to research and development. We’re just as committed to expanding access to healthcare and working with others who share our passion to create a healthier world. Together, we’ll meet that Mary Woolley challenge. Promise. President and CEO

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181137_25_Anniv_Book.indd 1 1/29/14 10:16 AM When it comes to the next big idea, As a Founding Member of Research!America research holds the key. Duke University and Duke Medicine Salute Research!America's 25 Years of Innovative Advocacy

The AMA stands united with Research!America in the work you do to help physicians care for patients.

Advances in medical research don’t just happen. Vision, commitment, collaboration, a willingness to invest in the unknown—all are needed to unlock such mysteries as the human genome, drug therapies and stem cell research. At the American Medical Association we know robust research underpins our mission to improve the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. As the physician organization whose reach extends across the entire profession, we’re investing significant effort and resources toward achieving three ambitious goals:

n Improving health outcomes for patients n Improving opportunities for physicians to provide high-quality care n Improving training for a new generation of medical students

The AMA is working to significantly improve the health of the nation. Learn more. ama-assn.org/go/strategic-focus Research!America Leadership, 2013 – 2014 Board of Directors

______Officers Jay A. Gershen, DDS, PhD James L. Madara, MD ______Emeritus Directors President Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President Hon. John Edward Porter, Chair Northeast Ohio Medical University American Medical Association William G. Anlyan, MD Myron Genel, MD James E. Mulvihill, DMD Randolph Siegel Partner Irma E. Goertzen William D. Novelli Samuel C. Silverstein, MD Hogan Lovells US LLP William N. Hait, MD, PhD Mark McClellan, MD, PhD Dennis A. Ausiello, MD Global Head Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform Kenneth I. Berns, MD, PhD M.R.C. Greenwood, PhD William A. Peck, MD Hon. Louis Stokes Hon. Michael N. Castle, Vice Chair Janssen Research & Development, LLC Brookings Institution William R. Brinkley, PhD Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH Edward E. Penhoet, PhD Hon. Louis W. Sullivan, MD Partner DLA Piper, LLP Mary J. C. Hendrix, PhD Hon. Kweisi Mfume Roger J. Bulger, MD Robert A. Ingram William L. Roper, MD, MPH Hon. Billy Tauzin President and Scientific Director G. Steven Burrill Caroline A. Kovac, PhD Leon E. Rosenberg, MD Reed V. Tuckson, MD Mary Woolley, President Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Elizabeth Nabel, MD Gail H. Cassell, PhD Philip R. Lee, MD Isadore Rosenfeld, MD Christopher A. Viehbacher Chief Executive Officer Research Center President Research!America Brigham and Women’s Hospital Wendy Chaite, Esq. Ellen Levine Raymond R. Sackler, MD Alan G. Walton, DSc, PhD Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN Jordan J. Cohen, MD Constance E. Lieber Charles A. Sanders, MD M. Cass Wheeler Larry J. Shapiro, MD, Secretary Professor of Nursing, Medicine and Public Health Herbert Pardes, MD Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs and Dean The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Executive Vice Chair Sam Donaldson John P. Margaritis Mitchel Sayare, PhD John Whitehead NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital of the School of Medicine John P. Donnelly Jewell Jackson McCabe Carol R. Scheman Ruth Wooden Washington University in St. Louis Harry Johns President and CEO Sudip S. Parikh, PhD Robert Dresing Catherine E. McDermott M. Roy Schwarz, MD Judy Woodruff Vice President & General Manager, Lucinda Maine, PhD, RPh, Treasurer Alzheimer’s Association Eugene Garfield, PhD Donnica L. Moore, MD Susan C. Scrimshaw, PhD James B. Wyngaarden, MD Health & Analytics Executive Vice President & CEO Jackie Lovelace Johnson Battelle American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Chair of the Board Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute Amy Comstock Rick, JD ______Board Members: Chief Executive Officer Evan Jones Parkinson’s Action Network Tenley E. Albright, MD Managing Member Director, Collaborative Initiatives jVen Capital John R. Seffrin, PhD For more highlights Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Baker Keffer American Cancer Society Georges C. Benjamin, MD Vice President McGladrey congratulates of Research!America’s Executive Director The Atlantic Laing Rogers Sisto American Public Health Association President Community Leader Research!America on Atlantic LIVE last 25 years, please visit Nancy Brown Jack T. Watters, MD Chief Executive Officer Hon. Patrick Kennedy Vice President for External Medical Affairs their 25th Anniversary. American Heart Association Co-Chair Pfizer, Inc. www.researchamerica.org/25years One Mind for Research Susan Dentzer Keith R. Yamamoto, PhD Senior Health Policy Adviser Debra R. Lappin, JD Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine ® Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Principal Professor, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Power comes from being understood. FaegreBD Consulting University of California, San Francisco Victor J. Dzau, MD Experience the power. Elias Zerhouni, MD Chancellor for Health Affairs Alan I. Leshner, PhD Go to www.mcgladrey.com. President, Global Research & Development Duke University Chief Executive Officer Contact Janette Burke at 866.239.8790. Sanofi President and CEO American Association for the Advancement Duke University Health System of Science © 2014 McGladrey LLP. All Rights Reserved. Joseph Feczko, MD Research!America salutes Herbert Pardes, MD, our longest serving board member, for more than 20 years of leadership and commitment. Research!America Leadership Looking Back at 25 Years of Leadership

The Honorable Mary Woolley Founding Board of Founding Member Johnson & Johnson ______Massachusetts General Hospital John Edward Porter ______Directors ______Organizations ______Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mary Woolley is the president of Jack Whitehead (Deceased) AdvaMed (Advanced Medical Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center The Honorable John Edward Porter, Research!America. During her 23 years of Virginia Weldon Technology Association) Merck & Co., Inc. Ed Greissing, Jr. Albert Einstein College of Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine a stalwart advocate of health and leadership, Research!America has earned of Yeshiva University Willa Hsueh, MD National Alopecia Areata Foundation medical research, has served on the attention and respect of elected and Alliance for Aging Research National Organization for Rare Bob Bolan American Academy of Pediatrics Disorders (NORD) Research!America’s Board of Directors appointed officials, researchers in the Terry Lierman The American College of New York University since 2001 and as chair since 2005. public, private and academic sectors, Michael Goldberg, PhD Neuropsychopharmacology Novartis International media, and community leaders with its Patricia Jones American Dental Education Association Partners Healthcare System, Inc. As a member of the House Appropriations Committee and chairman record of innovation in advocacy for research. Research!America’s John Donnelly American Diabetes Association Pfizer Inc of the subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and reports and publications, websites, and voter education initiatives William R. Hendee, PhD American Geriatrics Society PhRMA Robert Dresing American Medical Association Purdue University Education, he protected medical research funding from deep have been honored by leading regional and international Carol Scheman The American Physiological Society Society for Neuroscience budget cuts and then led the bipartisan effort to double the National communications and advocacy organizations, including the Public American Psychiatric Association Society for Pediatric Research American Society for Biochemistry University of Alabama, School of Medicine Institutes of Health budget. These trailblazing efforts were recognized Relations Society of America. Board Members Elected in 1989 and Molecular Biology University of California, San Diego School by an act of Congress in 2000, authorizing the naming of the NIH William Anlyan, MD Woolley is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and The American Society for Microbiology of Medicine/Health Sciences Neuroscience Research Center for him. The dedication ceremony Steven Beering, MD Association of Independent Research Institutes The University of Chicago Pritzker serves on its Governing Council. She is a fellow of the American will occur later this month. He will also receive the National Academy Paul Boyer, PhD Baylor College of Medicine School of Medicine Association for the Advancement of Science and serves on the Purnell Choppin, MD University of Connecticut Health Center of Sciences’ most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal, at a Beckman Coulter National Academy of Sciences Board on Life Sciences. She is a Pamela Bowes Davis, MD, PhD Bristol-Myers Squibb University of Louisville ceremony this spring. University of Maryland, Baltimore founding member of the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Ted Cooper, MD (Deceased) Burroughs Wellcome Fund Richard Furlaud Case Western Reserve University University of Miami Mr. Porter was founder and co-chairman of the Congressional Human Institute for Biomedical Research and is a member of the visiting University of North Carolina School of Medicine Leonard Goldenson Children’s Research Institute at Children’s National Medical Center University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Rights Caucus, a voluntary association of more than 250 members committee of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Woolley is Sam Guze, MD (Deceased) of Congress working to identify, monitor, and end human rights also a member of the National Council for Johns Hopkins Nursing. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory The University of Toledo Medical Center C. Everett Koop, MD (Deceased) Columbia University (formerly the Medical College of Ohio) violations worldwide. He co-authored the legislation creating Radio She holds an honorary doctoral degree from the Northeast J. Richard Munro David Geffen School of Medicine at University of Wisconsin School of Free Asia and served as chair of the Global Legislators Organized for Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). Woolley has also served as Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill (Deceased) UCLA (formerly University of California, Medicine and Public Health a Balanced Environment (GLOBE USA). Mr. Porter is also vice-chair of president of the Association of Independent Research Institutes, as Raymond Sackler, MD Los Angeles School of Medicine) Vanderbilt University Medical Center M. Roy Schwarz, MD Duke University Medical Center The George Washington University the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and is an elected editor of the Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, as a Lewis Thomas, MD (Deceased) Emory University School of Medicine Washington University in St. Louis member of the Institute of Medicine. He has received more than 275 reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and National Science James Wyngaarden, MD Federation of American Societies for School of Medicine awards for his service in Congress, including the Mary Woodard Lasker Foundation, and as a consultant to several research organizations. Experimental Biology (FASEB) Weill Cornell Medical College The Forsyth Institute Yale University School of Medicine Award for Public Service. She has a 30-year publication history on science advocacy and Honorary Chair of the Board Georgetown University Medical Center Mary Woodard Lasker (Deceased) research-related topics and is a sought-after speaker, often Harvard Medical School Founding Supporters Before his election to Congress, Porter served in the Illinois House of ______interviewed by science, news and policy journalists. Hereditary Disease Foundation Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Representatives and prior to that, as an Honor Law Graduate Attorney Initial President of R!A Howard Hughes Medical Institute Edward S. Moore Foundation with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Kennedy administration. Lowell Weicker International & American Edwin Whitehead/Whitehead Charitable He attended M.I.T., and is a graduate of Northwestern University, and, Association for Dental Research Foundation Executive Director Hired in 1989 JDRF with distinction, of the University of Michigan Law School. Mr. Porter Metropolitan Life Foundation Jerome Paulson, MD Johns Hopkins Medicine Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation has nine honorary degrees. Former Board Leadership

Edwin C. “Jack” William Anlyan Paul Rogers Whitehead ______William G. Anlyan, MD, an innovator The Honorable Paul G. Rogers (1921- Edwin C. “Jack” Whitehead (1919- in medical education, a dedicated 2008) was a highly decorated, 12-term Extraordinary Heroes 1992) was Research!America’s doctor and gifted administrator Member of Congress from Florida of Health, Innovation & Founding Chair (1989-1992) and one is chancellor emeritus of Duke who was widely known as “Mr. Health” of its most emphatic supporters. His University and a Trustee of The Duke for his lifetime of service dedicated to Advocacy: In Memoriam distinguished career in medicine, Endowment. Dr. Anlyan served as public health and medical research. Jack Whitehead philanthropy and industry spanned chair of Research!America’s Board of He chaired Research!America’s Board Paul Rogers parts of six decades, beginning in 1939 when he and his father Directors from 1992-1996. of Directors from 1996-2005 and remained active as chair C. Everett Koop started an instrumentation company in a one-room office in the emeritus. John Z. Aquilino Bronx. That company went on to become Technicon, known as a Dr. Anlyan was raised in Egypt as the son of a British civil servant. Sharon Monsky pioneer in the modern clinical diagnostics industry. He came to the United States in 1943 to enroll in Yale University, In his 24 distinguished years in Congress (1955-1979), Rogers Mike Wallace from which he received both his bachelor’s and medical degrees. served as a member and later chair of the House Subcommittee Judah Folkman, MD Robert N. Butler, MD Whitehead focused his effort on the furthering of biomedical In 1949 Dr. Anlyan went to Duke, where he began a residency on Health and the Environment. Credited to his stewardship are Roscoe Robinson, MD research with the founding of the Whitehead Institute in general and thoracic surgery. In his half-century of service to more than 50 ground-breaking laws that have helped improve Margaret E. Mahoney for Biomedical Research in 1982 and the founding of Duke, he has been a surgeon and professor of surgery, dean of health and the environment as well as advance medical and Hon. Edward Kennedy Research!America 25 years ago. A tribute to him in the Whitehead the School of Medicine, and executive vice president for health scientific research. Hon. C.W. Bill Young Institute’s 1993 Director’s Report concluded: “Mr. Whitehead had affairs. Hon. Mark O. Hatfield an abiding belief in the potential human benefit of biomedical Rogers’ achievements benefited the lives of Americans young Hon. Arlen Specter Michael E. DeBakey, MD research and worked tirelessly to make his vision a reality.” In recognition for all of his efforts to put research to work to assure and old, from every corner of the nation. In his honor, in 2001, the health and well being of all Americans, Research!America the congressionally designated Paul G. Rogers Plaza was Jack Whitehead’s lifelong commitment to medical research continues recognized Dr. Anlyan in 1997 with the Lifetime Achievement as dedicated at the National Institutes of Health headquarters today, through the efforts of his children – Susan, John and Peter – an Advocate for Medical Research Award. in Bethesda, MD. Rogers inspired all who knew him with his and their work with the Whitehead Institute, Research!America and dedication to effective advocacy and his determination to “You can change the image of things to come. other advocates on behalf of medical research. make better health a reality for all. As he so often said, “Without But you can’t do it sitting on your hands.” research, there is no hope.” – The Honorable John Edward Porter, Chair

America Speaks Consistently over the past two decades, more than half of Americans say they’re willing to pay $1 more in taxes if they were certain the money would be spent for additional medical research. Steven J. Corwin, M.D., Chief Executive Officer and The Board, Physicians, Administration, and Staff of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital are proud to commemorate

Pfizer congratulates Research!America on their on 25 years of commitment to research 25 th Anniversary Federal funding is helping researchers at cancer centers nationwide discover new treatments. But if Congress doesn’t get research back on track, promising new treatments may never reach patients. With 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime, we can’t afford to let federal investments go to waste.

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Congratulations to Research!America for AMER C A 25 years of excellence in innovative advocacy. !• Janet J. Fedak Congratulations to Research!America and its commitment to advancing our nation’s from the American Academy of Pediatrics for 25 years of outstanding service health, medical and scientific research. and advocacy to promote medical research and improve children’s lives.

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