dr. hodes. >> thank you chairman collins, ranking member mccaskill and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to be here and the support that you have provided to nih and for the research. and to thank everyone here in this room for the opportunity to be a part of what we're doing. i'd like to spend the next few minutes just giving some of the examples of the state of research in alzheimer's. the state which gives us great hope hope greater than ever before that the progress we're seeing now will lead to improvements andality ultimately the ability to treat, and cure alzheimer's disease. the next slide, this probably needs no elaboration. this is as referred to by chairman collins but is as illustration where we stand now in terms of the number of people effected with alzheimer's disease and the projection of increase. two to threefold in the next decades if we don't change the course. and the estimates of the cost to the right. already showing alzheimer's the most expensive di