November 14, 2025 – ACT for NIH President Richard Turman today announced that he will be stepping down from leading the NIH advocacy organization, and its affiliated education arm... read more →

February 14, 2023 – ACT for NIH Foundation is proud to announce the publication of Angel in Mink, The Story of Mary Lasker's Crusade for Medical Research and The... read more →

Senators Chris Coons (D-Delaware) and Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) recently published an opinion piece in Scientific American that calls for a robust, sustained increase in funding for the National Cancer Institute... read more →

OPINION by Jed Manocherian Since President Joe Biden submitted his first budget request to Congress, there has been much discussion of a bold, new policy proposal embedded in his $51... read more →

We are thrilled that the Nobel Prize committee has chosen to honor ACT for NIH Advisory Committee member Dr. Jennifer Doudna with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work... read more →

December 20, 2019 - ACT for NIH thanks Congress for passing the FY2020 spending package with a $2.6 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health. This vital boost brings... read more →

December 9, 2019 - ACT for NIH President Pat White today announced that he will be stepping down from leading the NIH advocacy organization effective January 1, 2020 and longtime... read more →

March 25, 2019 - The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released a white paper today that covered the role NIH funding plays in terms of America's economic global competitiveness in... read more →

February 15, 2019 - ACT for NIH founder, Jed Manocherian, penned an editorial for The Cancer Letter titled, "Making the Case to Double NIH." The editorial can be read, in... read more →

July 13, 2016: “ACT for NIH thanks the House Appropriations Committee and Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) for approving a $1.25 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in... read more →