dr. robinson and secretary of hhs. created by the pandemic of 2006 is the agency responsible for providing advanced development and countermeasures and therapeutic drugs and diagnostics for the entire nation. exist to address the consequences of by of threats and on a routine basis responding to your emerging threats and the etf outbreak last year. today we face ebola that is up by a thread with the department of homeland security and the emerging infectious diseases. when it comes to ebola the best way to protect their country is address the current epidemic. florida works with federal court in to transition to a early development into a finance development toward ultimate fda approval since 2006 we have built a pipeline of more than 150 measures chemical biological nuclear threats. we are having therapeutic candidates with advanced development in concert with the federal partners to have counter measures to protect -- over the past five years n.i.h. and cdc we have bill of flexible and rapid response superstructure t

dr. robinson and secretary of hhs. created by the pandemic of 2006 is the agency responsible for providing advanced development and countermeasures and therapeutic drugs and diagnostics for the entire nation. exist to address the consequences of by of threats and on a routine basis responding to your emerging threats and the etf outbreak last year. today we face ebola that is up by a thread with the department of homeland security and the emerging infectious diseases. when it comes to ebola the best way to protect their country is address the current epidemic. florida works with federal court in to transition to a early development into a finance development toward ultimate fda approval since 2006 we have built a pipeline of more than 150 measures chemical biological nuclear threats. we are having therapeutic candidates with advanced development in concert with the federal partners to have counter measures to protect -- over the past five years n.i.h. and cdc we have bill of flexible and rapid response superstructure t

dr. robinson, dr. bell, knowing that gates and allen foundations have stepped up that way and the money ha is going to be included in the cr, thank you to our appropriations chair that is sitting next to me, is that enough money and global support to stop this outbreak? >> i'll answer for the cdc. we do appreciate the $30 million that's in the cr. that amount of money is enough to keep us operating through the end of the continuing resolution on december 11th. it allows us to keep our people in the field to pay for our staff and to begin to scale up in a way we think is necessary. we will be kind of considering over the time period of the cr what additional resources we will need for the rest of the fiscal year in order to fulfill our responsibilities and respond to the ebola outbreak in the way we know we need to. >> dr. robinson? >> the $58 million that we requested will get us through this fall. we want more vaccines and more that you are therapeutics, there will have to be more funding going forwar

dr. robinson, does barta have the resources it nee needs? >> yes, for this fall.on't have going forward for ebola to produce more vaccines and more therapeutics. we actually want to do more than just zmap. there are others we have under consideration. we and others will need more funding, there's no doubt about that. >> thank you very much to the panel and mr. chairman for having this hearing. i'm proud to represent a state that's producing truly incredible research in the biomedical field, including several ongoing studies and efforts aimed at curiing ebola. the geneva foundation, which is working on a treatment drug. they are looking at culturally appropriate ways to prevent further transmissions and the university of cats lab looking at vaccines and drug developments. we're doing a lot out there. the reality is that we all have to do more. and i think it's important to mention that one of the reasons i fought so hard to roll back sequestration in the bipartisan budget act was to provide certainty for organizations like nih, which have had to deal with some stee

dr. robinson. >> the $58 million we requested will get us through this fall. we want more than vaccines and more therapyityics, there will have to be more funding for us to go forward. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator murray. senator isisson. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. bell, i want to echo what has been said about how proud we are of cdc. at one of georgia's two senators, however, i want to add how proud we are of emory university and dr. jim wagner and the staff. i now dr. brantly would feel the same way, as well as phoenix that's brought the patients back from liberia to the united states. that was a tremendous effort. and saxby was gone when this happened so i was the only senator reachable by the press they day it was announced they would come to emory university. the press immediately looked for the wisdom of bringing an ebola patient back to the united states and whether we had the capable of preventing the disease from spreading. in emory university and the cdc did a marvelous job of making those transfers seamless and complete, an