by The Honorable Jim Greenwood Biopharmaceutical companies are at the forefront of expanding our understanding of the genetic and biomolecular basis of disease, and their researchers are committed to developing the next generation of modern medicines. However, this goal can be realized only in an environment of forward-looking public policies that sustain scientific discovery and […]
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by Reisa Sperling For so many years now, the focus of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research has been on trying (and failing) to manage Alzheimer’s symptoms at later stages of the disease, rather than preventing these devastating symptoms from developing in the first place. And over the past ten years or so, as we are painfully […]
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 […]
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Over one hundred LEAD Coalition member organizations and supporters wrote to the Director of the Domestic Policy Council offering support for a 2015 White House Conference on Aging with a cross-cutting focus on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Read the full letter.
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