Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) hosted a March 26 forum titled “Cures in Crisis: What Gutting NIH Research Means for Americans with Cancer, Alzheimer’s, and Other Diseases.”
Baldwin and Welch were joined by other Democratic senators such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and witnesses included former NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli, MD, and disease researchers and patients who have benefitted from NIH clinical trials. Major themes of the forum included the impacts of recent executive and agency actions on NIH-supported research and downstream effects on scientific progress and patient health.
- Washington Highlights