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Community Resources and Information on Sequestration
What People are Saying About Sequestration
- The Baltimore Sun Oct. 18 published
an article detailing the impact of sequestration on Maryland's
research funding.
- The St. Augustine Record Oct. 16 published
an op-ed written by Kimberly Coshow, Ph.D., Assistant State Director
at the Parkinson's Action Network, about the impact of sequestration
on health and Florida's local economy.
- The Boston Globe Oct. 3 published
an article about the importance of funding for NIH and biomedical
research.
- NewsOK Aug. 25 published
an op-ed written by James George, M.D., of the University of Oklahoma
Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, warning that
sequestration will put medical research in jeopardy by further
limiting NIH's ability to fund research proposals.
- The New England Journal of Medicine Aug. 23 published
an op-ed written by Gordon Sun, M.D., Jeffrey Steinberg, Ph.D.,
and Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., warning that continuing to fund
the NIH at levels that fail to keep pace with inflation coupled
sequestration will result in long-term damage for the U.S.
- The Baltimore Sun July 9 published
an op-ed written by Mark Donowitz, M.D., LeBoff Professor for
Research in Digestive Diseases at Johns Hopkins University, warning
if Congress does not take action to avoid sequestration, "America
may lose its leadership in biomedical research."
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution June 29 published
an op-ed written by David Stephen, M.D., vice president for research
and professor of medicine at Emory University, and Stephen Cross,
Ph.D., executive vice president for research and professor in
the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.
The authors warn that looming budget cuts threaten to "derail
priorities of the National Institutes of Health."
- The Billings Gazette June 18 published
an op-ed written by David Poulsen, Ph.D., research associate professor
at The University of Montana College of Health Professions and
Biomedical Sciences, urging readers to contact their Member of
Congress to avoid cuts and ensure the United States continues
to be the leader in science and innovation.
Please Note: If you have any sequestration resources you would
like to share, please forward them to Alex Khalife at akhalife@aamc.org
or Hayzell Gollopp at hgollopp@aamc.org.
For more information contact
The Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research,
202.828.0525
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