Coalition for the Life Sciences

Leadership

CLS History

A 2012 perspective by Thomas D. Pollard tracing how the American Society for Cell Biology became a political advocate for the scientific community — and how that effort grew into the Coalition for Life Sciences.

Portrait of Thomas D. Pollard, author of the 2012 CLS history article

Original article

Political advocacy by the American Society for Cell Biology and its partners

Thomas D. Pollard

Departments of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; and Cell Biology, Yale University.

Abstract. The author traces how the American Society for Cell Biology became a strong political advocate for the scientific community, celebrates how good leadership and an effective staff enabled its energetic volunteer organization to have an impact, and asks how the effort can be made more successful.

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Page 1 of the article, showing the title, author, abstract, and opening paragraphs.
Page 1 — Title, abstract, and the start of the article
Page 2 of the article, covering the formation of the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy and the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus.
Page 2 — Formation of the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy
Page 3 of the article, discussing ASCB public policy and current threats to biomedical research.
Page 3 — ASCB public policy and current threats to research
Page 4 of the article, with a call to action, acknowledgments, and references.
Page 4 — What scientists can do, acknowledgments, and references

Article originally published in Molecular Biology of the Cell, Volume 23, 1 November 2012. Reprinted under the Creative Commons Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.