Pro-Federal Funding

The Alliance for Aging Research is a non-profit organization that promotes the use of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. As an agency geared toward improving the health of human beings as they age, some of their responsibilities include lobbying for federal legislation, conducting studies and surveys, and creating and distributing educational materials to health care professionals and the public. With Baby Boomers closely reaching the later stages of life, this group has found themselves focused primarily on research programs for the geriatric.

In order to ensure progress and the stability of their organization, they have established some fundamental guidelines which they use to conduct business. Following their principles, they believe that research on aging is valuable, good for social and economical policy, and under-funded. Supporting statements of their guiding principles include the need for "research to understand and manipulate aging...