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LEAD Coalition Calls for New Federal Investments in Care, Support, and Research

Ninety-three LEAD Coalition member organizations and supporters wrote to the U.S. House and Senate appropriations leadership calling for a $20 million expansion in care and support services through the Administration for Community Living and overall NIH funding to reach $32 billion including at least $200 million in new investments in dementia research. Read the Senate and House versions of the letter.

LEAD Coalition Supports NIH Draft Policy

Eighty-six LEAD Coalition member organizations and supporters submitted a public comment supporting a National Institutes of Health (NIH) draft policy to promote the use of a single Institutional Review Board (single IRB) of record for domestic sites of multi-site studies funded by the NIH. Read the full public comment.

LEAD Coalition Urges Congressional Appropriators to Cement New Federal Investments in Research, Care and Support

Eighty-seven LEAD Coalition member organizations and supporters wrote to the U.S. House and Senate appropriations leadership urging them to include in the FY 2015 spending package the $100 million increase above FY 2014 levels for the National Institute on Aging (NIA) that the Senate appropriations committee included in its draft Labor, HHS and Education bill and the resources provided for […]