Advocacy Awards

Stay tuned for information about our 2011 Advocacy Awards. To learn more about the categories, the selection process or to see a list of past award winners, see our 2011 Advocacy Awards nominations page.

2010 Research!America
Advocacy Awards Dinner
March 16, 2010 
Washington, DC

Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium

The annual Research!America Advocacy Awards program was established in 1996 by the board of directors to honor outstanding advocates for medical, health and scientific research. Recognized individuals and organizations are those whose leadership efforts have been notably effective in advancing our nation's commitment to research. Download a fact sheet about Research!America's 14th Annual Advocacy Awards (PDF). 

A special musical performance by Chairman Obey and NIH Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, was a highlight of the evening, in the spirit of the "Rock Stars of Science." Coverage of the event in The Hill newspaper includes a number of photos from the event. View more photos from the 14th Annual Advocacy Awards.

We Thank Our Corporate Host

We Thank Our Grand Reception Sponsor
 

	Co-Chair The Honorable Billy Tauzin Corporate Sponsor PhRMA
	Co-Chair Harry Johns Alzheimer's Association

2010 Advocacy Award Winners and Benefactors

Edwin C. Whitehead Award for Medical Research Advocacy Benefactor: Whitehead Charitable Foundation Pictured: Edwin C. Whitehead   2010 Recipient: The Honorable David R. Obey, U.S. Representative (D-Wisconsin), was honored for his commitment to health and medical research throughout his 21 terms in Congress. The award recognizes his leadership during the doubling years of the National Institutes of Health budget (1998-2003) and, more recently, in helping secure $10.4 billion for NIH under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read more.
Isadore Rosenfeld Award for Impact on Public Opinion Benefactor: Rosenfeld Heart Foundation Pictured: Isadore Rosenfeld, MD   2010 Recipient: G. Thompson Hutton, Esq., Trustee & CEO, Geoffrey Beene Foundation, and President & CEO of Geoffrey Beene, LLC, was honored for the national public service campaign Rock Stars of Science that spotlights top researchers to support increased research funding and engage the next generation in science, for co-sponsorship of 2009 HBO's pioneering series The Alzheimer's Project, and as founder of the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with a unique business/philanthropic model. Read more.
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award for Sustained National Leadership Benefactors: Raymond R. Sackler, MD, and Beverly Sackler    2010 Recipient: Ann Lurie was honored for her long-time national and international support for biomedical research. After her early career as a public health nurse, Lurie honored the memory of her husband, Robert H. Lurie, by supporting cancer research at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University. Lurie is founder and president of Africa Infectious Disease (AID) Village Clinics, Inc., president of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation, and president of Lurie Investments, Inc. Read more.
Paul G. Rogers Distinguished Organization Advocacy Award Benefactor: Hogan & Hartson LLP   2010 Recipient:   March of Dimes, an organization founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fight polio and now dedicated to improving the health of children through public health research advocacy, was honored. President Jennifer L. Howse, PhD, and Honorary Trustee Anna Eleanor Roosevelt accepted the award. Read more.
Gordon and Llura Gund Leadership Award Benefactors: Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation   2010 Recipient: Robert Klein, JD, was honored for his advocacy for stem cell and diabetes research. Klein led the way for Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative in 2004. Klein serves as the board chair ofthe California Institute for Regenerative Medicine,established to manage the grant process for the stem cell research funding authorized by the Initiative. Read more.
Builders of Science Award Anonymous Benefactor   2010 Recipient: Robert Mahley, MD, PhD, was honored for his role in expanding The J. David Gladstone Institutes and finding its new home at University of California, San Francisco. During his time as director of the institutes, Mahley expanded the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease to include institutes of virology and immunology and neurological diseases. Read more.

Download a fact sheet about the 2010 Advocacy Awards Dinner. (PDF)

14th Annual Advocacy Award Sponsors

Corporate Host

Grand Reception Sponsor
 

Principal Partner

Program Partners

Patron

Contributors

Sponsors

Mark Slezak

Friends

American Academy of Physician Assistants
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
B&D Consulting
Baylor College of Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Children's Memorial Hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD
The J. David Gladstone Institutes
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
jVen Capital, LLC
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
March of Dimes
Mead Johnson Nutrition
Mount Sinai Medical Center/School of Medicine
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy
Northwestern University
Stanford University School of Medicine
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

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