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Calling all scientists! Consider participating in the McClintock Letters Initiative or Science Homecoming Initiative, efforts encouraging scientists across the U.S. to write op-eds to their local hometown—sharing what their research is about, why it matters, and why science is worth investing in. We encourage all that are able to participate!
"Now, with support from the National Institutes of Health, we are each pursuing research that aims to improve lives from newborns facing viral brain infections to individuals navigating autism. We owe so much of that to the educators who mentored us, the parents who encouraged us and the community that invested in our education." - Regan Fair (University of Iowa PhD Student) & Jessica Johnstone (hometown friend & Northwestern University PhD Student)
Read Regan and Jessica's McClintock Letter, "Science Homecoming," in the San Mateo Daily Journal
Read Michelle's McClintock Letter, "NIH cuts will severely affect cancer research," in The Gazette
"I am extremely fortunate to have spent my formative childhood years in Iowa City and credit my teachers at Northwest Junior High for sparking and cultivating my love for science...The patience of my science teachers during these after-school field trips and when answering my endless questions is the reason that I became a scientist conducting medical research studying testicular tumors." - Michelle Liu (PhD student at Cornell University who grew up in Iowa City)
"The relationship I spent ten years building and the time and energy invested in a project I believed in was destroyed by a short-sited policy change that was implemented without involving those impacted. The institution in Germany no longer trusts NIH and will not support further collaboration. I’ve called my congressional representatives weekly to express concerns about NIH and how it has endangered my work. The responses were disappointing; minimizing the damage that is being done and ignoring my specific concerns." - Amy Conrad, PhD (pediatric clinical psychologist at the University of Iowa)
Read Amy's McClintock Letter, "How Changes at NIH Are Hurting Research: A Personal Experience," in the Mt. Vernon-Lisbon SUN
Read Michelle's McClintock Letter, "I am standing up for science because science saves lives," in Sentinel Colorado
"I owe my success to my Colorado community that raised me: to teachers who believed in me, field trips to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and the mountains that taught me about ecology and conservation. I carry Colorado with me everywhere I go, and I hope we continue to encourage the next generation in daring to dream that they can become doctors and scientists, just like my teachers did for me." - Michelle Chen (University of Iowa MD-PhD student)
"I have always believed in the science that I do. It has the potential to save lives. For me, solving biomedical problems in the lab is a gratifying and worthwhile mission...A month before moving to Boston, I received a poignant reminder of the significance and urgency of the work I do in the lab every day. I was diagnosed with cancer...I care about the funding of science, medicine, and education not just as a scientist and future physician, but as a patient myself. Every day that we don't fund researchers like my classmates and me is a day that we stay further from beating cancer and many other diseases." - Claire Brown (MD-PhD student at Harvard University who grew up in Iowa)
Read Claire's McClintock Letter, "Research support matters to me as a scientist and a patient," in Des Moines Register
Calling all community members!
Please share with us why you're standing up for science in the form below. We will compile some responses and share them with our community and on this website. Thank you!
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