IBCRF SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR AND TOP U.S. GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCHER TO PUSH FOR MORE U.S. SUPPORT
Richard R. Love, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine and Public Health, The Ohio State University; Scientific Director, International Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Madison, WI has been selected to join a group of 25 experts in global health research who will advocate for greater U.S. investment in global health research. They join 50 of their peers in Research!America’s Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research in a united effort to build a national conversation around the value and importance of U.S. funded global heath research.
The Rogers Society, named for the Honorable Paul G. Rogers (1921-2008), former Florida Congressman, renowned champion for health research, and Research!America chair emeritus, works to increase awareness of and make the case for greater U.S. investment in research to fight diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest nations.
Dr. Love is a medical researcher whose focus is on hormonal control of breast cancer. For the last 15 years his NIH and Breast Cancer Research Foundation-funded research has been done in collaboration with colleagues in Vietnam, and more recently in the Philippines, Morocco and Bangladesh. His clinical trial of adjuvant surgical oophorectomy and tamoxifen established a new global standard of care, of significant importance to 500,000 poor women diagnosed with breast cancer annually around the world.
Currently Dr. Love has three major clinical trials investigatingnew “public health” (i.e. easily replicable, practical, limited toxicity and low cost) treatments for breast cancer in 9 countries; over 750 usually forgotten poor women have entered these trials to date.
He is working with several American and Canadian researchers to develop a larger portfolio of similar international collaborative-public health studies.
He and his peers were selected by an advisory council comprised of renowned leaders in science, public policy and communications, including four Nobel Laureates. Together they will meet with their policymakers to make the case for an increased U.S. investment in global health research through the examples of their own research.
“We have a new Congress and a new Administration. Now is the time when we can make a difference for global health research. These Ambassadors will be exceptional leaders in advocacy. Their example will serve as an inspiration for every global health researcher” said the Honorable John Edward Porter, chair of the Rogers Society Advisory Council and Research!America board chair. “Paul Rogers’ spirit lives on through the work of each of these Ambassadors. As he often said, without research, there is no hope.”
The Society was established in 2006 by Research!America with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Research!America works with the Ambassadors to maximize the effectiveness of their outreach to policy makers, opinion leaders and the media.
Research!America is the nation’s largest not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national priority. Founded in 1989, it is supported by 500 member organizations, which represent more than 125 million Americans. For more information, visit http://www.researchamerica.org/index.html.
In 1992 Dr. Love founded the International Breast Cancer Research Foundation (IBCRF) with a number of other cancer physicians. Currently at Ohio State University, Dr. Love directs IBCRF research projects all over the world. These projects in 22 countries provide opportunities to conduct research on the significance of genetic, dietary, lifestyle and hazardous exposure differences.
In its seventeenth year, IBCRF is committed to practical, cost-effective, breakthrough research that takes advantage of the most promising opportunities and ideas everywhere in the world. This research – especially clinical research –holds the key to understanding, preventing and curing breast cancer.
IBCRF exists to fill the need of smaller, innovative, logical and responsible pilot research projects. The results of these IBCRF funded pilot projects can then be leveraged into larger corresponding projects.
IBCRF is located at 660 John Nolan Drive in Madison, Wisconsin. For more information, visit http://www.ibcrf.org/
