Teresa Derr

Clinician, OCRA Advocate Leader/Mentor, Children's Advocate, Choral Singer, CAMPbassador & Volunteer Counselor/The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp

[Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance @ocrahope]

Ask Congress to support the bipartisan Clinical Trial Modernization Act. This bill would make clinical trials more accessible by reducing financial barriers, expanding remote participation, increasing outreach & education, and protecting patients from financial harm.

Take action: https://t.co/RYhyTJCL9v

#TealAction #GynCSM

[John Craven @johncraven1]

HAPPENING NOW: @GovNedLamont signing new law letting anyone vote by mail— without needing an excuse

The law also bans most law enforcement from polling places— an effort to keep federal immigration agents out

[Rosa DeLauro @rosadelauro]

.@JDVance @GOP @SecWar

[Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance @ocrahope]

Ovarian cancer patients whose tumors express a molecule involved in immune signaling may experience better outcomes. A study led by @HelsinkiUni researchers showed that tumors with higher levels of MHC class II were associated with stronger immune responses. This molecule is typically used by immune cells to alert the body to external threats. https://t.co/HVHH76Jik3

[Teresa Derr @territunes]

@BetteMidler

[Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance @ocrahope]

A new OCRA-funded study demonstrates that the risk of the most common ovarian cancer can be cut by 78% via opportunistic salpingectomy (removal of the fallopian tubes): https://t.co/5y8C081PES #OvarianCancer #CancerResearch #GynCSM

[Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance @ocrahope]

Advocates, your voices made a difference! The FY2026 Consolidated Appropriations Act has now been signed into law, marking a major win for the ovarian & gyn cancer community: https://t.co/NCTmmSdHIj. The FY2026 funding package includes several long-sought priorities listed in comments.

[Teresa Derr @territunes]

Stop Cuts to Cancer Education, Screening & Surveillance Programs https://t.co/RdSNBaznuP

[Teresa Derr @territunes]

OCRA Joins Leading Cancer Organizations in Expressing Profound Concern Over Proposed Elimination of CDC’s Cancer Prevention Division https://t.co/JOCNhAeUlv

[Teresa Derr @territunes]

Take Action Today to Restore Ovarian Cancer Research Funding! https://t.co/PmZcQjQRml

[Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance @ocrahope]

Join OCRA in a joint day of action. Take action at https://t.co/ZS42gmtgeV to urge Members of Congress to restore funding to the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). #restoreCDMRP #TealAction

[Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance @ocrahope]

Please act today at https://t.co/cm3GgiueJA to ask your Senators to oppose the House-passed continuing resolution unless it is modified to protect research funding. #TealAction

[Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance @ocrahope]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new policy for indirect cost reimbursement for research grants that could threaten to have a devastating impact on cancer research in the country. Urge the President to keep cancer research a priority: https://t.co/ZfAfIMmNEj

[Teresa Derr @territunes]

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility. YES! YES! YES!

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Victims are still in the water.

The Blackhawk crew is still strapped into the cockpit.

Families are mourning.

And Trump is blaming DEI, suggesting our pilots and air traffic controllers don't deserve their jobs.

We need compassion and leadership—

Our President showed none.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Kerry Kennedy on her brother, RFK Jr:

"I am disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely disavow and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant efforts to desecrate my father's memory." @Acyn (August 2024)

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I will be on @DeadlineWH with @NicolleDWallace in a few minutes to talk about the growing constitutional crisis as Donald Trump attempts to single handedly rewrite the Constitution.

[Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance @ocrahope]

OCRA grantee @Dan_A_Heller of @MSKCancerCenter tells reporter @MarcelClarkeTV about harnessing #AI to develop a blood test for early detection of #ovariancancer as part of an OCRA-funded study in partnership with Microsoft AI for Health (@MSFTResearch): https://t.co/byyL5yqJD3.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The Trump Administration’s action to suspend all federal grants & loans will have a devastating impact on the health and well-being of millions of children, seniors on fixed incomes, and the most vulnerable people in our country.

It is a dangerous move towards authoritarianism.

[Jack Schlossberg @JBKSchlossberg]

Ambassador Caroline Kennedy’s statement to the US Senate on RFKJr’s nomination for HHS Secretary

This is a reading of a letter she just sent to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

I’m so proud of my courageous mother, who’s lived a life of dignity, integrity and service.

she’s the kindest funnest smartest you’ll ever meet.