United states. A quick followup on africa. Ways and means has pointed out that there could be a problem between the u. S. And africa u. S. And the event e. U. If the u. S. Begins to get preferences in the african market. You chose a different path. Two quick questions. One, will you have some flexibility so you dont harm u. S. Exports and, two, have you given any thought to a common origin rule perhaps being part of epa where excuse me being part of ttip where the u. S. Recking nices african inputs the recognizes african inputs the same as export to the u. S. And vice versa so this wouldnt promote african participation in the Global Supply chain. And the third very quick is on g. I. S some are concerned youre use r using the lisbon agreement to make some progress. Perhaps that should be better left for the negotiation of the ttip in terms of this very controversial issue of geographical indications. Thank you very much. Thank you. That was a lot of questions. On tpa we are, of course,
As a married father, great role model, to make that a part of his message to all americans the importance of family. One need to aim it at any group, just say this is important for social cohesion. It is important for outcomes and a lot more important than mrs. Obama speak out the lights in the campaign. If you want to improve life for case, give them a mother and a father and this president did not choose to do that. Follow up on that. If you look at barack obama who is so admired in the Africanamerican Community and other communities as well, you could argue he has a unique ability to make the case. The next president is a republican, scott walker. Fatherhood is important. That is why its such a tragedy that obama chose not to do it. Hes occasionally delivered the message. But usually to an audience of young black teenagers rather than the whole country and making it a really key message of his presidency. Is it possible to talk about this intelligently and sensitively in the sensiti
16. Im happy to. Nkats, now just three years old, was the first new center at nih again, quite a long time and was focused in trying to identify the bottle necks from going from basic science discoveries to benefits. In collaboration with our partners in the private sector. I think initially there were some concerns that nih is becoming a drug company, that really was never the plan and is not happening now. Instead, we are identifying areas of Technology Development that no Single Company could undertake, but working with them, we can give you just one example. The effort to try to figure out when youre developing a new drug, whether its going to be safe in humans or not. Has been a real difficult one. We use animal studies, small animals, large animals. Its not that accurate. Its slow, its expensive. We probably lose drugs along the way because some mouse got a slight liver issue and it probably would have had no relevance to humans but we sort of lose the drug at that point. Wouldnt
Cancer, what we can do about it. But the other component which is a longterm ambitious to be sure effort is this cohort of a million or more americans, which we could be studying for virtually all diseases and knowing that you are a dentist i would certainly include in that such things as periodontal disease. We know the environment and genetic risk are involved in those conditions. But we really havent had a sufficiently large study with appropriate patient participation to be able to get those answers. This should be a way to go there. So thats true for diabetes, for Heart Disease, for alzheimers disease, for virtually every common condition with a million people, youre going to have enough events you should really be able to dissect, what were the biomarkers that warned this would happen what were the environmental factors that played a role. We never had that power before we aim to get it. Thats fascinating stuff, and could really advance the advancement of diseases and cure diseas
Helping them fight for their own freedom in the sense that we are giving the military aid . Are we still talking about that or actually doing that . In the last 14 months we have provided over 108 million in Security Assistance. I can you do a rundown of what would be included in that, but it would it would be things like medications equipment emergency medical, those kind of things. We will look at what more we can do. That is all nonlethal aid. Are we sending any guns, bullets . No, sir. Why not . They want to defend themselves. As i said we have continued to look at other request from the ukrainians on the lethal side, but note decisions have been made no decisions have been made. So the russians arent each in ukraine, besides being in crimea, which i dont think they will ever try to leave crimea and other nations are very concerned they are next in the russian aggression. I meeting with some ambassadors today. I meeting with some ambassadors today. What is our policy on russian agg