Top Research Advocates Named 2008 Award Recipients
Research advocate Pat Furlong-founding president and chief executive officer of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy-and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, are among those named recipients of Research!America's 2008 Advocacy Awards.
Our 2008 Advocacy Awards will be presented March 18, 2008, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC. Pfizer Inc is the corporate host, and PARADE magazine is the media sponsor.
Furlong, who will receive our "Gordon and Llura Gund Leadership Award," founded her organization after her two sons were diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Her sons lost their battles as teens-the disease has no cure-yet Furlong remains an active research advocate.
Receiving our "Paul G. Rogers Distinguished Organization Advocacy Award," amfAR is one of the world's leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to the support of HIV/AIDS research, prevention, treatment and education, and sound AIDS-related public policy. Kenneth Cole is amfAR's chair. Mathilde Krim, PhD, founding chair, will accept the award, made possible by Hogan & Hartson, LLP.
William H. Foege, MD, MPH, will be recognized with our "Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award for Sustained National Leadership" for his public health advocacy that included the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. Foege, a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, is a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation senior fellow and a presidential distinguished professor at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.
Our 2008 "Builders of Science Award" will be presented to Richard A. Lerner, MD, president of The Scripps Research Institute. Lerner led Scripps from a small adjunct facility to become a major biological research institution.
Additional 2008 Advocacy Award recipients will be named at a later date.
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