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UMR Submits Response to 21st Century Cures White Paper

June 9, 2014

White Paper Response: 21st Century Cures

  • UMR responds to Chairman Fred Upton’s (R-MI) and Representative Diana DeGette’s (D-CO) 21st Century Cures initial white paper entitled, “21st Century Cures: A Call to Action”.
  • UMR supports continuing our nation’s commitment to biomedical research, so that the United States remains the world leader in the life sciences.
  • UMR requests that the 21st Century Cures Initiative include a strategy for providing NIH with a path to stable, sustainable and predictable funding growth.