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Research!America | E TO HOM H CLOSER RESEARC BRINgINg THE 6 H ARCH 201 SEARC M REATE ADVOC n Now Honoring Outstanding Leaders in Take Actio Research Advocacy Urge your al Leaders in research advocacy spanning basic research, congression es to health care delivery, public policy, the entertainment epresentativ industry and grassroots activism will be honored at r edical Research!America’s 20th Anniversary Advocacy Awards support m Dinner on wednesday, March 16. This year’s awardees, FY17. progress in whose advocacy efforts have been notably effective in t advancing our nation’s commitment to research, include: t e r r Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Representative Tom a B e on e mor v rn Cole (R-OK) ; Harold Varmus, M.D. , Lewis Thomas e Lea t S / . l ge 8 University professor, weill Cornell Medicine and Nobel e pa h c Laureate; John Noseworthy, M.D. , president and CEO, o K m Mayo Clinic; Trish and George Vradenburg , o T : t i co-founders, UsAgainstAlzheimer’s (UsA2); Robert d e r Langer, Sc.D. , David H. Koch Institute professor, MIT; The C ALS Association ; and Lisa Paulsen and The Entertain - ment Industry Foundation (EIF) .The dinner will be held at the Andrew w. Mellon Auditorium in washington, D.C. Prior to the awards dinner, Research!America will hold its 27th Annual Meeting of Members at the willard Intercontinental Hotel, 12:00 – 1:30pm. The meeting will feature guest speakers senior Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Food and Drug Administration commissioner Robert Califf, M.D.; and Lorri Carey , ALS Association patient advocate. To register for the Annual Meeting, visit http://bit.ly/1UxamEk . For more information about the 2016 Advocacy Awards and to register, visit www.researchamerica.org/advocacy_awards . AC TION ALERT Summit Discusses Research Elected Officials Should Listen to Public Health Professionals Challenges and Opportunities in Louisiana In thinking about threats to your health, how important is it that elected officials at all levels listen to Research conducted at Louisiana institutions benefits advice from public health professionals? 1% 3% not only those in the state but also people across the Not at all Not country, said honorary co-host Senator Bill Cassidy, Important Sure 7 M.D., (R-LA) during his opening remarks at the N % o Im t p T Louisiana Research Summit held on February 16 at the o o r o ta n University Medical Center in New Orleans. The summit, t co-hosted by Research!America, assembled federal, state, university, and business leaders to discuss 58% 31% Very hat current challenges and opportunities for advancing Somew Importan t t research in Louisiana. Senator Cassidy stressed the Importan importance of making Louisiana "easy to work with" by lowering administrative barriers and building on success to date. He also emphasized that the summit Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) was not designed as a one-time event, but rather the catalyst for seizing opportunity in the months ahead. SOURCE: A RESEARCH!AMERICA POLL OF U.S. ADULTS CONDUCTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ZOGBY ANALYTICS IN JANUARY 2016. DUE TO ROUNDING, THE TOTAL MAY NOT Diabetes, obesity, cancer and heart disease are serious health issues in Louisiana. In some ADD TO 100%. Louisiana parishes, the rate of diabetes is 50% higher than the rest of the nation. VISIT US ON THE wEB Louisiana State University (LSU) president F. King Alexander, Ph.D. , underscored the www.researchamerica.org need for cooperation across research sectors to address the “heavy burden of disease” in the state. He also emphasized the importance of working to assure that "the public knows twitter.com/researchamerica we are here to solve problems." facebook.com/ResearchAmerica.org continued on page 3 you tube.com/researchamerica researchamerica.org/blog R T’S LETTE PRESIDEN March brings Research!America’s annual members’ meeting and advocacy awards event. I hope you will be joining us as we welcome leaders from across the stakeholder community, from the .orgs, the .govs, the .edus to the .coms. Across social media domains and into homes, clinics, walk-a-thons, laboratories, board rooms and federal science agencies, we’re all in this together – indeed, being allied together is what makes us effective! The power of speaking with one voice of persistence and focus is what our alliance is all about. See related articles in this newsletter for more information about our March 16th events. Speaking of March, “Super Tuesday” is behind us, but many more primaries and a lot more Mary Woolley campaigning are ahead. It is our goal to make sure that we hear from candidates for Congress, as well President and CEO as for the Presidency, how they would act, if elected, to speed medical progress by powering up research and innovation to find cures, treatments and prevention. Candidates won’t talk about the urgency of putting a high priority on research if their constituents don’t demand that they do so. There is, in short, an important role for you to play as an advocate right now, and another important role as someone who can influence the many people in your personal and professional networks to speak, out as well. As in elections, numbers count in advocacy. Issues, like candidates, become winners because they have the power of numbers behind them. Let’s work together to be sure that research is a winning issue this campaign season, and join the Campaign For Cures by visiting www.campaignforcures.org . Research!America Extends Special Thanks to our Supporters who Have Contributed Since the Publication of our February Newsletter 2016 Advocacy Awards Sponsors: Ohio Research Forum Benefactor: AdvaMed (Advanced Medical Inter-University Council of Ohio Geoffrey Beene Foundation Technology Association) FaegreBD Consulting Program Partners: Northeast Ohio Medical University Aetna, Inc. Merck & Co., Inc. Friends: UsAgainstAlzheimer’s American Heart Association March of Dimes Foundation Contributor: Spectrum Science Communications Partners HealthCare System Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Visit www.researchamerica.org/partnership_opportunities for ways to support Research!America. Special Thanks to New and Renewing Research!America Alliance Members New Members American Society for Clinical Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Support Community Investigation PhRMA e 520 Gift of Life Donor Program The American Society for Sjogren’s Syndrome Foundation eet, Suit Microbiology Society for Advancement of 01 King Str 960 Renewing Members 11 22314-2 The American Society for Tropical Violence and Injury Research ndria, VA AdvaMed (Advanced Medical Alexa rg Medicine and Hygiene Spectrum Science Communications america.o Technology Association) .research The American Society of Spina Bifida Association www CURE Albert Einstein College of Medicine / 800-366- Hematology Stanley Manne Children’s 03-739-2577 of Yeshiva University 7 ca.org Alliance for Aging Research The Association for Research in Research Institute earchameri editor@res American Association for Vision and Ophthalmology University of Louisville rica Cancer Research Blue Ridge Institute for School of Dentistry rch!Ame Medical Research University of Nevada, Las Vegas bout Resea American Association for the A n’s largest Advancement of Science Buck Institute for Research on School of Dental Medicine ca is the natio earch!Ameri cacy Aging Vanderbilt University Res tion and advo American Association of ) public educa rove 501(c)(3 search to imp Pharmaceutical Scientists Drexel University Medical Center ing to make re alliance work . Founded in American Federation for Duke University Medical Center Washington University tional priority h a higher na by Medical Research Greater Akron Chamber School of Medicine in St. Louis healt is supported arch!America nt American Public Health 1989, Rese gether represe Harvard School of Public Health WebMD Health Corp ations that to mber organiz Americans. Association Hydrocephalus Association WomenHeart: the National me n 125 million s of more tha ms American Society for March of Dimes Foundation Coalition for Women with the voice vocacy progra inion polls, ad Biochemistry and Molecular Our public op ic and decision Melanoma Research Alliance Heart Disease each the publ Biology publications r lth and Morehouse School of Medicine Wright State University and e medical, hea The American Society for help advanc National Osteoporosis Foundation makers to Cell Biology arch. scientific rese Not yet a member? Join Research!America today at www.researchamerica.org/membership . 2 RESEARCH!AMERICA ECTORS OF DIR Summit in Louisiana continued from page 1 BOARD Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley moderated a powerhouse panel of OFFICERS federal officials who spoke to the discovery, development, and delivery spectrum. National The Honorable John Edward Porter, chair Science Foundation (NSF) director France Cordova, Ph.D ., congratulated Louisiana The Honorable Michael N. Castle, vice chair scientists for their pivotal contributions to the Laser Interferometer gravitational-wave Mary woolley, president and CEO Observatory (LIgO) Scientific Collaboration at the Livingston facility, and discussed NSF’s E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA , secretary role in advancing basic research. Lucinda Maine, PhD, RPh, treasurer BOARD MEMBERS “we are in debt to Louisiana that the NIH even exists,” noted Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D. , Tenley E. Albright, MD director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Collins spoke of the key role Louisiana Hortensia Amaro, PhD georges C. Benjamin, MD played in the founding of NIH -- late Senator Joseph Ransdell (D-LA) laid the groundwork Nancy Brown for its creation in the Ransdell Act of 1930. Dr. Collins also addressed the importance of Susan Dentzer collaborative networks to advance research. He highlighted the Louisiana Clinical and Victor J. Dzau, MD Translational Science Center (LACaTS), which brings together multiple institutions to Joseph M. Feczko, MD Jay A. gershen, DDS, PhD advance chronic disease prevention and treatment with a focus on underserved popula - william Hait, MD, PhD tions.
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