National institute on aging promising signs of alzheimers disease will be supported. We have a distinguished panel of experts here today and family members and also quite a and audience. I will welcome the representative of the Alzheimers Association summit you came along way to be here today we thank you for your tireless worker about the need to do more for your loved ones. Also we have students from the university of virginia spending the day learning about budget and appropriations. On the first panel will hear from dr. Francis collins distinguished director of National Institutes of health and what kinds of research are most likely to benefit from our appropriations and we will also have dr. Lee and this and also from the National Institute of aging also here to answer questions on this second panel we go to the researcher who underwrote the study that i mentioned earlier and joined by two individuals impacted by this devastating disease. Finally congressman is here today as a lon
Just under two hours. [inaudible conversations] the Senate Subcommittee Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor health, human services, education and related agencies will please come to order. Todays hearing is the sixth that this subcommittee has held since 2000 focusing on alzheimers disease. The burden of the disease, the state of the research and the challenges we face. Going back many years we heard predictions from experts about the far reaching consequences this disease will have on the quality of life of American Families and the burden will place on our economy in the years ahead. Last april major study predicted these consequences will be far greater than anyone previously imagined. We will hear from the author of that study on the next panel. This study commanded the attention of the nation and the subcommittee. There are few americans whose life hasnt been touched in some way by alzheimers disease whether through a Family Member or a friend. It is the most common form
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Policy. Or definitively saying what diseases money has to go to. Instead, we allow the peerreview process to support the most promising science. However, we were able to provide 131 million increase for the National Institute on ageing in the recent fiscal year 2014 omnibus. Again, with the expectation that promising science in alzheimers disease will be supported. We have a distinguished panel of experts here today, scientists, economists, patients, family members. We also have quite an audience. Let me welcome representatives of the Alzheimers Association. Some of you came a long way to be here today. We thank you for your tireless work to educate members of congress and the press about the need to do more to help you and your loved ones. Also in the audience are students, i am told, from the university of virginia. These young people are spending a day here learning about budget and appropriations, and we welcome all of you here also. On our first panel, of course, well hear from dr