Levin, Health Advocates, Medical Researchers to Highlight Sequester’s Impact on Health Research Funding

Levin, Health Advocates, Medical Researchers to Highlight Sequester’s Impact on Health Research Funding 

Event at Gilda’s Club in Royal Oak MONDAY at 11 a.m.

RSVP: josh.drobnyk@mail.house.gov

U.S. Rep. Sander Levin will join local health advocates and medical researchers on Monday to discuss the sequester’s effects on state and national health research funding. The funding for the National Institutes of Health is being cut 5.1% nationwide as a result of the sequester, which will delay or halt vital scientific projects and make hundreds of fewer research awards. Michigan programs are expected to see a $31.6 million cut from this NIH budget.

WHAT: 
Rep. Levin will meet with area health advocates and medical researchers Monday to discuss the sequester’s harmful effect on state and national health research funding. Other attendees include Margot C. LaPointe, Vice President of Research, Henry Ford Health System; Carol Christner, Director of Government Relations at the Karmanos Cancer Institute; and Dr. Sonia Hassan, Associate Dean for Maternal, Perinatal and Child Health, Wayne State University School of Medicine. 

WHEN: 
11 a.m., Monday, March 11

WHERE: 
Gilda’s Club

3517 Rochester Rd

Royal Oak, MI 48073

RSVP:
Josh Drobnyk
josh.drobnyk@mail.house.gov
202-225-4961