Patrick Guddal

Patrick Guddal

@pguddal.bsky.social

Executive Director/Government Relations Lead at Connect Melanoma. Stage 3B melanoma survivor. Ridiculously pro-science. Passionate advocate for medical research.

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I think the reason empires might fall is because there are a lot of people in this country just going to work and doing their thing and that’s just letting it happen. We must mobilize. All of us.

Please everyone, contact your Senators and ask them to support the “Coons-Alsobrooks amendment to fully restore the 57% funding cut to the CDMRP. This is the defense-funded, cutting edge medical research that is critical to finding treatments for hundreds of afflictions. I’m here for questions.

Although it seems ironic to be an advocate for research funding and health policy when there’s no research funding or health policy, our jobs just became more important than ever.

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Today, US Senator Jim Banks (R) was approached by a fired HHS employee. He told the employee that he “probably deserved to be fired” and that the employee “looks like a clown”. This is what the entire Republican party thinks of HHS workers. Video in article. www.nbcnews.com/video/fmr-hh...

nbcnews.comFmr. HHS employee confronts senatorSen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”

This Thursday (4/3), I’ll be in Washington DC presenting at a congressional briefing in support of the restoration and protection of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), which the recent Continuing Resolution cut by 57%.

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