National Medical Research Day, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges, was held on October 21, 2009. The event celebrated the importance and impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and biomedical research. ResearchMeansHope.org, a community of concerned patients, physicians, and researchers from U.S. medical schools throughout the country, hosted a press conference on National Medical Research Day in Washington, D.C.
If government is a parent of academic research, it could also be said that the heart of government is legislation. Creating government policy is a different kind of skill than Sarah England's first discipline, but not one that lies exclusively outside her ken. She is a scientist who perhaps understands better than most how legislation affects the life of the academic researcher since she has placed herself in both worlds, laboring in the familiar neighborhood of her University of Iowa molecular biology lab as well as having written health care policy in the Washington, D.C. office of (then) Senator Hillary Roddam Clinton.
A Life of Productive Research
