Announcer sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Host a discussion on the history of Infectious Disease research. Our professor joins us from hamilton, montana. He serves as the director at the lab. Can you give the viewers an overview of what your scientists do their at hamilton and what the labs role is . The division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases. Which means tony fauci is our boss. He comes out and visits us whenever he can. Usually about once every two years. The lab has been involved in what is called emerging Infectious Disease research for well over 100 years, tracing back to the early 20th century with the identification of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, an important techborn Infectious Disease tickborn Infectious Disease. The lab has focused on Infectious Diseases. In addition to working on the ones which we know about, folks have been looking to see what is the next big Infectious Disease coming down the pipe we can look at. I think t
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We are going to move on to our second panel. I am very excited for this actually. I have my good friend, janet woodcock, who is the principal fda commissioner and has been there for a number of years and helped reorganize and restructure offices. And is probably one of the best investors i know in the public and private sector. She has always been willing to do the hard work that others are unwilling to do and make hard decisions. And continuing our brain traps, we have dr. Mark mcclellan who ran two federal agencies including serving as the fda commissioner area i am an eternal pragmatist so this is fun for me because you are going to spend time talking about how to fix agencies and organizations. During the pandemic, the biomedical innovation complex works pretty well. We got vaccines, had therapeutics, and it took time to happen and in record time. All of us are probably sitting here today because these things actually happened. We got them out community. The Public Health infrastru
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Our second panel. I am very excited for this actually. I have my good friend, janet woodcock, who is the principal fda commissioner and has been there for a number of years and helped reorganize and restructure offices. And is probably one of the best investors i know in the public and private sector. She has always been willing to do the hard work that others are unwilling to do and make hard decisions. And continuing our brain traps, we have dr. Mark mcclellan who ran two federal agencies including serving as the fda commissioner area i am an eternal pragmatist so this is fun for me because you are going to spend time talking about how to fix agencies and organizations. During the pandemic, the biomedical innovation complex works pretty well. We got vaccines, had therapeutics, and it took time to happen and in record time. All of us are probably sitting here today because these things actually happened. We got them out community. The Public Health infrastructure unfortunately offerin