On Dec 2, 8:49 pm, Mitch Haynes <mitchhay...@gmail.com> wrote:
June 29, 2007
NIH Funding
Another thread from Purdue worth posting:
We are calling upon you again during this Independence Day holiday
period to ask you to contact your Representative in person at a local
event or by telephone to the local office by July 9th. When Congress
returns to Washington after the 4th of July recess, the House of
Representatives will consider a 1.9% increase to the NIH budget.
Between now and then, you have the opportunity to remind your
Representative of the importance of your work and let them know about
any difficulties you have encountered because of shrinking budgets.
Members of Congress have told us that they are not hearing from
researchers in the community. We must turn this around. Members and
their staffs are receptive to hearing from researchers about how the
proposed FY 2008 budget will affect their research and their careers.
Please contact your Representative either in person at a local
Independence Day event or by telephone before July 9th. Tell them
your
story and let them know that they must make cancer and biomedical
research funding a national priority.
In your contact with your Representative, please mention any of the
research challenges you are facing at this time, for example: -
denials
or delays in getting grant funding for meritorious research
-the impact of cuts to grants already funded
-staffing and equipment shortages
-the loss of bright young investigators to other fields
-reduced opportunities for patients to get on therapeutic clinical
trials
-cancellation or halting of important clinical trials.
In short, your Representative needs to hear about the serious effect
these low budgets are having on your research progress. Urge them to
make cancer research funding a national priority. A few minutes of
your time could help get NIH and NCI funding back on track.
Thank you for responding to this request and have an enjoyable
holiday.
William N. Hait, M.D., Ph.D., President
William G. Nelson V, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Science Policy & Legislative
Affairs Committee
Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), Chief Executive Officer
P.S. Please let AACR know you have made a contact with your
Representative by sending us a quick e-mail at legaffa...@aacr.org.
Just write: "I have contacted Representative X in person/by phone."
