Their budget is billions of dollars. Some of that money is earmarked for specific disorders. We need to lobby our representatives. We need to learn the skills for lobbying. Those who know how to do it ARE receiving grants.
Some grants are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
We need to be among them and you can start by writing to our elected federal representatives. The more researchers we have working for us, the more likely we are to find the answers we are looking for, and the faster we will find them. The future of the measure appears uncertain in light of current comments made by President Bush. The bill contains a provision permitting federal funding of stem cell derivation for research purposes currently prohibited under NIH Guidelines.