ASRM Launches “Fighting for Our Future” Campaign to Rescue Reproductive Research

June 23, 2025
For immediate release

Washington, DC—The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) announced the launch of the Fighting for Our Future: Rescuing Research Campaign, an urgent effort to provide bridge funding for reproductive scientists, researchers, and labs at risk due to recent federal funding cuts.



The Fighting for Our Future: Rescuing Research Campaign is designed to:

• Preserve Critical Research: Keep transformative reproductive health projects alive despite federal defunding.
• Retain Scientific Talent: Prevent early- and mid-career investigators from leaving the field due to loss of funding.
• Continue Innovation: Sustain the research ecosystem needed for future breakthroughs in fertility, embryology, and women’s health.
• Protect the Training Pipeline: Ensure postdocs and trainees continue receiving mentorship, safeguarding the next generation of scientists.
• Stabilize Research Institutions: Maintain the stability of research centers, allowing them to withstand political and funding volatility.

Donor support at all levels will have a direct and measurable impact, such as:

• $25,000: Provides lab supplies for one early-career investigator for a year.
• $60,000: Fully funds a postdoctoral researcher.
• $100,000: Keeps a promising project going after federal defunding.
• $250,000: Supports a mid-career principal investigator and their team.
• $500,000: Preserves a key institutional program.
• $1,000,000+: Enables strategic investments in research, advocacy, and resilience across the field.

The consequences of federal funding cuts are being felt today. One ASRM member shared: “I’m an early-career physician-researcher, focusing on reproductive health. Both my clinical and research work are now under serious threat, and I anticipate I will lose my funding any day. I was planning to submit my first NIH independent grant this last spring; I now must pivot, either to abandon my work or to find other sources of funding.”

The first $1 million to the fund will be matched by ASRM, doubling the impact that donors can make for reproductive medical research.

For more information about supporting the Rescuing Research campaign, contact ASRM Director of Charitable Giving, Holly Jaap Hilton, at hhilton@asrm.org or (205) 978-7702.