At the same time, he and other framers of the statement say they are gratified that so many diverse and prestigious organizations have put their support behind the effort.
"I guess I had hoped that more congressional offices and more parts of the [Clinton] administration would have taken note of the breadth of the constituents that had thought it important to prepare a statement," says Leon Rosenberg, president of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Princeton, N.J. Rosenberg chaired the March 9 meeting sponsored by Research!America, an Alexandria, Va.-based research-advocacy organization, at which the declaration was conceived.
The document begins with the assertion that "too many Americans are suffering and dying needlessly because, as a nation, we don't invest enough in medical research." It concludes with recommendations, including calls to "incorporate the promotion of medical research as an integral element of health-care reform" and "encourage, do not obstruct, the ...
