NeuroAdvocates Urge Policymakers to Support Basic Research Funding

SfN members Ed Bilsky (left) and Mollie Marr (center), and SfN President Diane Lipscombe (center) meet with Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) during the 2019 Capitol Hill Day.

Rep. Dwight Evans (D-PA, center) (center) meets with SfN advocates to discuss funding for NIH and NSF.

2019 ECPA Maxwell Zhu meets with Rep. Joe Kennedy III (MA).

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) (left) meets with Government and Public Affairs Committee member Monica Linden.

SfN advocates Ed Bilsky, 2019 Early Career Policy Ambassador Priyanka Bushana, and Mollie Marr wrap up a successful meeting with Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) (second from right).

SfN advocate Joe Luchsinger (left) shares a video of light sheet microscopy in a mouse brain with Congressional staff.

Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) shares recognition in the congressional record of Brain Awareness Week with SfN advocates, including 2019 Early Career Policy Ambassador Enitan Marcelle (right).

SfN President Diane Lipscombe (left), Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and SfN President-Elect Barry Everitt meet during 2019 Capitol Hill Day.

Government and Public Affairs Committee Chair Moses V. Chao (left), along with SfN advocates and GPA members (left to right) Wai “Ho” Yu, Abigail Kalmbach, Steven Shea, and Helen Mayburg, pose outside Rep. Tom Suozzi’s (D-NY) office following their Capitol Hill Day meeting.

SfN President Diane Lipscombe (left) with the 2019 class of the Early Career Policy Ambassadors Program, a one-year program that allows early career scientists to interact with leading neuroscience advocates and policymakers.

Global Membership Committee member Trichur Raju (left) meets with Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) to discuss brain science research supported by NIH and NSF.