NIH funding suffers due to sequester & Community Activities

From NY Times article (10 Oct 2013) on Noble Prize in Chemistry …

with strong implications on Pancreatic Cancer … Know It, Fight It, End It

“Their work [Noble Prize Chemistry Research] has long been supported by federal science grants, said Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, which has had to send home most of its scientists because of the government shutdown. Noting that Monday’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine were also underwritten by the N.I.H., Dr. Collins said in an e-mail to a reporter on Wednesday, “The irony continues.””

We must continue to lobby Congress to end the sequester, especially for life-saving research at NIH

Here is a snapshot of which federal activities are deemed “non-essential”  A sorry picture!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/shutdown-department-comparison/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

Lots of activities shown below!  Looks as if the links survived copy/paste

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Correction: Last month, we incorrectly stated that the Daniel and Janet Mordecai Foundation funded three research grants when, in reality, the gift funded fiveresearch grants totaling $1.4 million, for which we are deeply appreciative.

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