title: An October call to arms: we are research!
abstract: The American Society for Cell Biology is targeting the first week of October 2012 (the week before Nobel Prize winners are announced) to launch the We Are Research initiative. The goal of this initiative is to mobilize practicing junior and senior scientists, including graduate students, postdocs, and other lab members, to make contact with their elected officials and neighbors and explain to them why Federal support and investment in biomedical research is vital to the health and economic welfare of the United States. This initiative is designed to illustrate how important people are to scientific research and to supply our representatives with reliable and accurate information in the form of letters, emails, telephone calls, and personal visits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. lgoldstein@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Lawrence S B
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Goldstein
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D005380:Financing, Government; D008119:Lobbying; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014481:United States