Institutes of health in bethesda, maryland is dr. Francis collins, National Institutes of health director. Thank you very much for joining us here on the newsmakers program. Dr. Collins glad to be with you, and great to have a chance to chat at the beginning of a new decade. Steve joining us with the question is Kimberly Leonard, who covers Health Policy issues for the washington examiner, and Health Reporter Jayne Odonnell of usa today. I want to begin because this june marks the 20th anniversary of decoding the genes that make up the human body. Two decades later, where are we . Dr. Collins my goodness. Where do i begin . It has been an amazing couple decades of taking that own insight into our human instruction book and beginning to figure out how to read it, written in this strange language with just four letters in the alphabet, and how to apply that to some basic lessons about how life works and how we can use that information to advance medical care. If you look at the place whe
Institutes of health in bethesda, maryland is dr. Francis collins, National Institutes of health director. To be with glad you, and great to have a chance to chat at the beginning of a new decade. Steve joining us with the question is Kimberly Leonard, who covers Health Policy issues for the washington examiner, and Health Reporter Jayne Odonnell of usa today. I want to begin because this june marks the 20th anniversary of decoding the genes that make up the human body. Two decades later, where are we . Dr. Collins where do i begin . It has been taking that own insight into our human instruction book and beginning to figure out how to read it, written in this strange language with just four letters in the alphabet, and how to apply that to some basic lessons about how life works and how we can use that information to advance medical care. If you look at the place where genomics has become central to biomedical research, you cannot find a place where that is not the case. Everyone is us
Dr. Collins my goodness. Where do i begin . It has been an amazing couple decades of taking that own insight into our human instruction book and beginning to figure out how to read it, written in this strange language with just four letters in the alphabet, and how to apply that to some basic lessons about how life works and how we can use that information to advance medical care. If you look at the place where genomics has become central to biomedical research, you cannot find a place where that is not the case. Everyone is using a variety of approaches to understand phenomenal questions about what cells do and how the brain works. What the micro biome is all about, the micro biomes that live in and on us. In terms of clinical applications, the most obvious one is in cancer. Now because we know cancer is a disease of the genome, it comes about because of misspellings in dna. We have the ability for individuals to say, why exactly are those cells doing what they shouldnt and how we sho
Days take on a life of their own. I want to say good morning. Good morning, dr. Collins, welcome back to hhs to the appropriations subcommittee. Let me just say a thank you on behalf of the on behalf of the sub come they for hosting members of the subcommittee for the site visit at the nih campus last week. We had a real wonderful opportunity to learn more about nihs work. We met with the researchers who were working to cure Sickle Cell Disease and develop treatments for major depression and shrink cancer tumors in children. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials and it was a moving and informative, but a very moving experience, as well. Let me welcome our witnesses including the five institute and senate directors who join us today and in addition, and always a great addition, dr. Francis collins and joined us many times director of the National Institutes of health today joined by dr. Bruce tromberg director of biomedical engineer, the director of
To order, i thank you very much and i apologize for being late. They take on a life of their own but i just want to say good morning, good morning doctor collins and welcome back. Let me just say thank you on behalf of the subcommittee for hosting members of the subcommittee for the nra campus last week. We had a wonderful opportunity to learn more about in ages work. We met with researchers who were working to develop treatment for major depression, shrink cancer tumors. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed back Clinical Trials. So it was a moving experience as well and we welcome our witnesses, including the five director said join as today and, in addition, doctor Francis Collins as john this is many times as director of National Health, today joined by dr. Bruce, director of the National Institute of biomedical imaging and bioengineering, Helene Langevin director of the National Director of health. Doctor eliseo perezstable, director of Minority Health and the s