Research showcase Keynote Address Mary Woolley

Description: Title: "Essential New Voices for Research: YOU!" Speaker: Mary Woolley, President of Reseach! America Date: April 16th, 2009 Location: Veale Convocation Center on the campus of Case Western Reserve University Description: Woolley shares with the Research showcase audience how the $10.4 billion earmarked in the federal budget for investment in health research and basic sciences is an encouraging sign for the research community. "Now it is incumbent on the science community, particularly early-career scientists, to make it clear to elected representatives and taxpayers just how this support and future strong research funding helps advance our economy and improve our health and our quality of life," Woolley said. Research showcase is the University's annual event that brings together hundreds of researchers, scientists and scholars for a day of collaboration, creativity and innovation. Woolley has a 30-year editorial and publication history on science advocacy and research topics. Her op-eds and letters to the editor have been published in newspapers and magazines around the country, including Science, Nature, Issues in Science and Technology, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Scientist. She is a sought-after speaker and is frequently interviewed by science, news and policy journalists. For her work on behalf of medical research, she has been honored as a Woman of Vision by the American Committee for the Weizmann