Last night at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, the Parker Foundation celebrated the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act with ACT for NIH, Friends of Cancer Research, and the Economic Innovation Group. Among the attendees were entrepreneur and philanthropist Sean Parker and his wife Alexandra Parker; Sen. Mark Warner; Rep. Fred Upton and his wife Amey Upton; Reps. Diana DeGette, Greg Walden and Kevin Yoder; Director Francis Collins of the NIH; Commissioner Robert Califf of the FDA; USTR Michael Froman; Jed Manocherian and Pat White of ACT for NIH; Ellen Sigal, Jeff Allen and Marlene Malek of Friends of Cancer Research; EIG’s Steve Glickman and John Lettieri; Greg Simon of the Office of the Vice President; Joan Hillebrands of Rep. Upton’s office; Gary Andres of Energy and Commerce; Brian McGuire of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office; David Cleary of Sen. Lamar Alexander’s office; John Falcicchio of Mayor Bowser’s office; Ronald DePinho of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy; Vinoda Basnayake of Nelson Mullins; Gary Reedy of the ACS; Penny Mills of ASAM; Laurie Glimcher of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Samir Khleif of the Georgia Cancer Center; Liz Jaffee of Johns Hopkins; Nancy Goodman of Kids v Cancer; Mary Giliberti of NAMI; Sung Poblete of StandUp2Cancer; and Fred Malek of the Thayer Lodging Group. Spike Mendelsohn catered.

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