ACT for NIH
ACT for NIH: Advancing Cures Today is an American lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C. It is registered as a 501©(4) non-profit advocacy organization, and lobbies the United States Congress to increase funding for biomedical research.1) It additionally operates a 501©(3) non-profit organization called the ACT for NIH Foundation.
It was formed in 2017.2)
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
1)
About. Act for NIH. Retrieved October 15, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221015201811/https://www.actfornih.org/about/
2)
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/