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Coalition Applauds Senate Appropriations Committee for Including Strong Pediatric Research Provision in FY 24 Report
The Coalition for Pediatric Medical Research applauds the Senate Appropriations Committee for including language within the Fiscal Year 2024 Labor, HHS and Education spending bill report to advance pediatric medical research. Specifically, the FY 24 report language (below) includes funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to engage the National Academies of Science, Engineering…
Coalition Applauds Reintroduction of Bipartisan Bill to Enhance Support for Early-Career Pediatric Medical Researchers
Washington (July 21, 2023) – The Coalition for Pediatric Medical Research, which consists of about two dozen of the nation’s most research-intensive children’s hospitals, applauded the recent reintroduction of the bipartisan and bicameral Pediatricians Accelerate Childhood Therapies Act (S. 2345 and H.R. 4714) which will strengthen National Institutes of Health (NIH) programs to support early-stage…
Coalition Urges Senate Panel to Consider Research Workforce
The Coalition for Pediatric Medical Research sent a letter to Senate HELP Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy in response to their request for information on shortages in the healthcare workforce. In its letter, the Coalition urged Senators to consider the research workforce needs as part of this overall effort. To read…
Coalition Issues White Paper and Recommendations to Inform ARPA-H Operations
The Coalition for Pediatric Medical research prepared a white paper, including a set of recommendations, to inform the operations of the recently constituted Advanced Research Projects Agency – Health (ARPA-H). The Coalition developed the white paper to help ensure the agency is not structured in a way that it limits opportunities on child health research…