CF Foundation Announces Congressional Briefing

The CF Foundation is delighted to announce that Dr. Robert J. Beall, president and CEO of the CFF and Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will brief the United States Senate on the ongoing efforts to develop promising medical research for rare diseases this Thursday, May 20.

The briefing will discuss how funding for medical research at NIH can be used to more quickly create new therapies for patients and save lives. The NIH is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Speakers will also discuss the lessons learned from the cystic fibrosis community’s successes in medical research that can map the way for other diseases.

Dr. Collins, a distinguished geneticist who led the international effort to map the human genome, is the co-discoverer of the cystic fibrosis gene. He will examine how funding for medical research at the NIH can be used to speed the development of new treatments for patients, and discuss the lessons learned from the cystic fibrosis community's successes that can map the way for other diseases.

Click here to listen to Dr. Collins talk about his dream for Cystic Fibrosis.

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Don't forget that May is National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month!