Professionals 
Professionals
Frankie L. Trull, President and CEO
With more than 25 years' experience in Washington and as founder and president of Policy Directions Inc., Frankie Trull specializes in policy issues affecting biomedical research, medical education, and science-based industry, including biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. She is also founder and president of the National Association for Biomedical Research and the Foundation for Biomedical Research.
Frankie specializes in issue areas overseen by the Senate committees on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Agriculture; Appropriations; and Judiciary and the House committees on Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Appropriations, Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform. The federal agencies with which she has worked for decades include NIH, CDC, FDA, HHS, USDA, and NASA. She also works closely with many of the trade associations and national advocacy organizations. She has a successful record of building effective coalitions, including a broad array of biomedical research organizations that partnered with agriculture for the successful passage of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. A frequent public speaker, Frankie is currently a member of the Board of Overseers of Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.
