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2010 Advocacy Awards

2010Research!America, Advocacy Awards Dinner
March16, 2010, Washington, DC

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.

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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

Our 2010 Advocacy Awards Honorary Chairs

Dennis A. Ausiello, MD
The Honorable Joe Barton
Arden Bement Jr., PhD
Edward J. Benz Jr., MD
The Honorable Brian P. Bilbray
Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker
William R. Brinkley, PhD
William R. Brody, MD, PhD
Nancy Brown
The Honorable Sherrod Brown
Tim Brown
David Bunning
The Honorable Roland Burris
The Honorable Russ Carnahan
The Honorable Yvette D. Clarke
The Honorable Thad Cochran
The Honorable Tom Cole
Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
The Honorable Susan Collins
The Honorable Joseph Crowley
The Honorable Richard M. Daley
Kenneth L. Davis, MD
The Honorable Diana DeGette
The Honorable Rosa DeLauro
The Honorable John D. Dingell
The Honorable Chris Dodd
The Honorable Eliot Engel
The Honorable Anna G. Eshoo
The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
Jay A. Gershen, DDS, PhD
Barbara A. Gordon
The Honorable Judd Gregg
Jack Haire
The Honorable Tom Harkin
Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD
The Honorable Rush Holt
The Honorable Michael M. Honda
The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye
The Honorable Jesse L. Jackson Jr.
Evan Jones
The Honorable Marcy Kaptur
Darrell G. Kirch, MD
Debra R. Lappin, JD
The Honorable Barbara Lee
Bill Leinweber
Gerald Levy, MD
Alan J. Lewis, PhD
The Honorable Richard G. Lugar
Jenny Luray
Patrick M. Magoon
The Honorable Carolyn B. Maloney
The Honorable Doris O. Matsui
The Honorable Betty McCollum
The Honorable Gregory W. Meeks
The Honorable Jeff Merkley
The Honorable Barbara A. Mikulski
Edward D. Miller, MD
The Honorable Dennis Moore
The Honorable Jim Moran
The Honorable Patty Murray
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD
Garry A. Neil, MD
The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton
Daniel M. Oshiro
Herbert Pardes, MD
Sudip S. Parikh, PhD
The Honorable Donald M. Payne
William A. Peck, MD
Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA
Carmen A. Puliafito, MD, MBA
The Honorable Pat Quinn
The Honorable Charles B. Rangel
The Honorable Brendan Reilly
The Honorable Lucille Roybal-Allard
Morton O. Schapiro, PhD
The Honorable Adam B. Schiff
John R. Seffrin, PhD
The Honorable Jeanne Shaheen
Larry J. Shapiro, MD
Mark Slezak
Todd J. Slotkin
The Honorable John Spratt Jr.
The Honorable Louis Stokes
Robert Tjian, PhD
Jeffrey Trent, PhD, FACMG
Reed V. Tuckson, MD
Harold Varmus, MD
Christopher A. Viehbacher
George Vradenburg
A. Eugene Washington, MD, MSc
John Watters, MD
Tadataka Yamada, MD

2010 Advocacy Award Winners and Benefactors

Edwin C. Whitehead Award for Medical Research Advocacy

Benefactor: Whitehead Charitable Foundation

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

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 forhis role in expanding The J. David Gladstone Institutesand 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.