====== ACT for NIH ======

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**ACT for NIH: Advancing Cures Today** is an American lobbying organization based in [[united_states:Washington, D.C.]] It is registered as a 501(c)(4) non-profit advocacy organization, and lobbies the [[United States Congress]] to increase funding for [[biomedical research]].((//About.// Act for NIH. Retrieved October 15, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221015201811/https://www.actfornih.org/about/)) It additionally operates a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization called the **ACT for NIH Foundation**.

It was formed in 2017.((//Act for NIH Foundation.// Cause IQ. Retrieved October 16, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221016014553/https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/act-for-nih-foundation,821130166/))

===== Organization =====

==== Leadership ====

^ Name  ^ Role  ^ Affiliation(s)  ^
| [[Richard Turman]]  | President  | -  |
| [[Rachel Pollock]]  | Vice-President  | -  |
| [[Emily Williams]]  | Advocacy and Operations Manager  | -  |
^  Advisory Committee  ^^^
| [[James Allison]]  | Advisor  | [[MD Anderson Cancer Center]]  |
| [[David Baltimore]]  | Advisor  | [[California Institute of Technology]]  |
| [[Eric Cantor]]  | Advisor  | [[United States Congress]], [[Moelis & Company]]  |
| [[Ronald DePinho]]  | Advisor  | [[MD Anderson Cancer Center]]  |
| [[Jennifer Doudna]]  | Advisor  | [[University of California at Berkeley]]  |
| [[Bernadette Gray-Little]]  | Advisor  | [[University of Kansas]]  |
| [[Tom Harkin]]  | Advisor  | [[Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement]]  |
| [[Michael Milken]]  | Advisor  | [[Milken Institute]]  |
| [[Siddhartha Mukherjee]]  | Advisor  | [[Columbia University]]  |
| [[Phillip Ozuah]]  | Advisor  | [[Montefiore Medicine]]  |
| [[Sean Parker]]  | Advisor  | [[Parker Foundation]]  |
| [[Ronald Petersen]]  | Advisor  | [[Mayo Clinic]], [[Mayo Clinic College of Medicine]]  |
| [[Padmanee Sharma]]  | Advisor  | [[MD Anderson Cancer Center]]  |
| [[Michael Stephens]]  | Advisor  | [[United States Congress]]  |
| [[Lori Wilson]]  | Advisor  | [[Howard University College of Medicine]]  |

===== External links =====

  * [[http://covidtruthinitiative.ca/e/en/Organizations/ACT-for-NIH|COVID Truth Initiative]]
  * [[https://www.actfornih.org/|Website]]
  * [[https://wiki.whiteroseintelligence.com/en/ACT-for-NIH|White Rose Wiki]]