Regina Barzilay, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, will join us to discuss the potential – and potential pitfalls – as health-focused artificial intelligence (AI) evolves. Dr. Barzilay will answer questions and share her own story: how confronting breast cancer convinced her AI can dramatically improve the diagnosis and treatment of […]
The 2023 Research!America Annual Meeting of Members highlighted our 2022 accomplishments and featured special guest speakers. This gathering, for leadership, staff, employees, and students of member institutions and organizations, was held on April 20, 2023, 1:00–2:15 p.m. ET Agenda Highlights: Hear from Research!America’s newly elected Board Chair, Sudip Parikh, PhD Remarks from U.S. Representative Lauren […]
Please join us for an alliance discussion featuring Dr. Rebecca Cunningham, Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan, on firearm injury in the United States and the path forward for this current public health crisis. Register.
Please join us for a Research!America members-only alliance discussion featuring Meena Seshamani, Director of Center for Medicare at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Dr. Seshamani will discuss the CMS response to the Inflation Reduction Act.
Join us for an alliance discussion with John Crowley, Chairman and CEO, Amicus Therapeutics. John will discuss the personal journey that led to his remarkable impact on progress against rare diseases, and the path to dramatically faster progress going forward. Register.
We were joined by Dr. Ned Sharpless, who among his many distinctions served as the Director of the National Cancer Center under the Trump and Biden Administrations. Dr. Sharpless sat down with leading health policy expert and commentator Susan Dentzer, in a conversation focused on the National Institutes of Health. What does NIH do, how […]
If your organization is a Research!America alliance member, email Jacqueline Lagoy at Jlagoy@researchamerica.org for a link to our members-only alliance discussion with Sara Maskornick, Democratic Staff Director of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Children & Families. Sara has graciously agreed to provide an update on the Senate’s efforts to develop and […]
We are honored to host Dr. Gary Gibbons, Director of the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, for a Zoom conversation about where we stand in the fight against sickle cell disease (SCD). SCD affects over 20 million people worldwide, including nearly 100,000 in the U.S. alone. Progress against this disease has been tragically slow. […]
Please join us for an alliance discussion featuring Steven Grossman, Executive Director of Alliance for a Stronger FDA, to discuss all things FDA, including the President’s FY 24 budget for FDA advocates. Register.
May is Lupus Awareness Month, an opportune time to explore the “process behind progress” in the fight against this and other high-cost, high-burden diseases. Please join us on Monday, May 22, 2023, for an in-person lunch briefing with speakers representing the full spectrum of the health and medical research continuum, who will discuss their roles […]
If your organization is a Research!America alliance member, email Jacqueline Lagoy at Jlagoy@researchamerica.org for a link to our members-only alliance discussion with Peter Marks, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at FDA. We’ve asked Dr. Marks to discuss efforts to shape a robust, cost- and time-efficient regulatory review pathway […]
More than 27,000 individuals – many of them luminaries in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) -- have signed an open letter by the Future of Life Institute calling for a pause in the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. Given the widespread mplications of AI for research and health (and virtually everything else), we’ve asked a key […]
