LE&RN Advocacy Action Alert - Ask Your Senator to Ensure that Lymphatic Diseases are Eligible for Key Funding

Contact the office of your Senator and ask that they support the inclusion of "lymphatic diseases" as eligible for study through the Department of Defense Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) during the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 appropriations process. 

 

Each year, the United States Senate crafts an annual Department of Defense (DOD) appropriations bill, which includes a list of conditions that are deemed "eligible for study" through the Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP). For a condition to be included, Senators need to support the condition and officially ask for its inclusion. Senators have many competing appropriations priorities and for them to support a condition-specific request, they need to be educated and asked to do so by their constituents. 

 

Recently, Congress finalized the DOD appropriations bill for FY 2026. Unfortunately, "lymphatic diseases" was left off the FY 2026 eligible conditions list for the PRMRP. However, Senators will now start working on FY 2027 DOD appropriations bill and will be deciding which conditions will be included on the next PRMRP eligible conditions list. We need your advocacy to help ensure that we are included on this list for the upcoming FY27 bill. At this critical juncture, please reach out to the offices of your Senators and ask that they "support the inclusion of "lymphatic diseases" in the DOD PRMRP's eligible conditions list in FY 2027.