the brain technology that nih is funding is terrific. are you satisfied that you're adequately connected with the brain gate funding to make sure that everybody is pulling in the same direction? >> we are enormously excited about that as well. yes, we have worked quite closely with darpa in this whole yie idea about how you could begin for people who are paralyzed to control a robotic arm to carry out fairly sophisticated activities including the one you mention said. this is a big part of what the brain initiative, which involves nih and darpa and as well as the department of energy, as well as international partners aims to do, to figure out hout the 86 billion neurons between your ears do what they do in these complicated circuits, which we're beginning to take apart and understand even better, because we would like to go from where we are now, which was sort of an empirical effort to get this to work, to understand it so well that you knew exactly where to place the electrodes to get the movement of the arm. >> last topic. we have ju

getting that first nih grant. it can be the difference on whether or not the scientist stays in the fight or whether the scientist has to leave academic medicine and go somewhere else. i want to z more. where are we on early career researchers? what percentage of the grants we were able to get. >> beginning in 2008 we with instituted a policy so that they got a bit of a boost. they come peelted against each other as opposed to the most experienced ones which meant terms that got a few extra points. that's not good fluff. we are still losing lots of those. they were well below what you would want to see. we think it would be most healthy if at least 25% of those were going to get funded. that's what we are trying to do with this new initiative which is named specifically for the words that were used in the bill. thank you senator baldwin for that encouragement. >> i understand right now we have been at about 16%. is that right? you're saying we ought to be boosting that at about 25%. >> we looked closely to try to

the brain therapy nih is funding is terrific. are you fully knowledgeable of darpa to make sure everybody is pulling in the same direction? we are enormously excited and we have worked quite close widarpa for people who are paralyzed to carry out robotic control. this involved nih and darpa and nsf and the department of energy and some international partners aims to do, to figure out how those 86 billion neurons between your ears do what they do and these complicated circuits we're trying to take apart and understand better. we would like to go from where we are now, sort of an empirical effort to get this to work to know exactly where the place those electrodes to get the maximum sophistication of the move of that robotic arm. >> last topic, we have done got bipartisan effort on plastic is in the ocean. issuing a unanimous statement of concern about plastics. plastic doesn't biodegrade and just breaks down in smaller and smaller points and microscopic creatures can consume it and it begins its track up the food chain. never in h

this is an ambitious goal and we know nih cannot succeed on its own so all across the nation nih is teaming up with the veterans administration, health provider organizations, community health centers, data center at vanderbilt and other groups to think of the best ways to recruit participants especially those that are traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research. nih has partnered with five companies to create a participant technology center at our partners are testing how wearable devices the ones i went today may provide easy ways for all of us volunteers to computer data on physical activity, sleep, heart rates and so on. getting all the partners onboard would eventually impossible at the cures act included other transaction authority, ota, or pmi making possible for an h to move forward with unprecedented speed and flexibility to carry at beta testing of all the many components and we are now scheduled to launch fully in the spring of 2018. 2018. as someone who grew up in a a theater, and of the value of a dress rehearsal before the curtain goes up. that's what a beta test is

over 40% of nih funding. analyses conducted by your agency and others have shown that a more diverse population of nih grant recipients would be beneficial to biomedical research. cures require the nih to develop strategies to promote and facilitate the next wave of nung researchers, and in your testimony you talk about the next generation researchers initiative. can you further elaborate on the multipronged approach you plan to take into crease the number of nih-funded early stage and mid-career investigators? >> thank you for the question. this is an area of great and high priority for us and we appreciate it very much, the way in which the cures bill called this out and gave us additional encouragement to think boldly about how we can ensure this next generation of researchers are getting their start as independent investigators with all the energy and creativity they bring to it. we could look at our own demographics and see that we were increasingly seeing an aging of our workforce, and while we have man

to explore a trans-nih nih initiative to better understand the molecular, taylor and physiological mechanism for those born with the trice nominee 21 chromosome. that is important work that should not be silent from the single nih institute so that promising research crosses a wide spectrum of health conditions to be pursued of each of the research discipline that presents an opportunity for scientific advances to improve the health and quality of life and possibly to discover those that affect families every year. our panelist calls this therapeutic leverage i hope we can use this to improve the lives of individuals with down syndrome as far as millions of others to suffer from delegatin delegating -- debilitating diseases. i just have to make reference at this point which is with $34 billion with a 2 billion-dollar increase we have not kept pace with the biomedical research our budget has declined since 2003 adjusted for inflation. so with that our work is cut out for us as individuals with down syndrome in the scientific discoveries we need to take a look at the investments for the federa

century cures fact those with the opioid epidemic and mental health focusing on the ongoing work at nih to implement the provisions of the law aimed at improving the discovery and development of treatments and cures for 21st century cures act with cutting edge research with the bowl by bin moonshot initiative to a salary cancer research to improve our ability to detect cancer early on in the hope one day redefined a cure for those such as pancreatic affecting patients today her cry interested to hear n.i.h. is achieving the goal also investing the precision that this initiative of the brain initiative and as in those leaving to pursue their fees and then to get the patients faster while maintaining the steward for effectiveness. in the sense of for it the development and encouraging the use of patient but with $500 million in funding to ensure the agency has the resources to recruit the best and brightest and implement the laws of afford to hearing were about the progress the agency has made on these issues. last the 21st century cures act marks the important step for treatments we coul

and nih has chronicled that in its reports. i'm wondering if other areas of investigation are being pursued, including toxic chemicals of various kinds. lyme disease. i chair of the lyme disease caucus, as well. and it's a huge problem in my district. in my state. and in our region. grossly underreported. and there have been studies that found that people with lyme -- that dementia was one of the consequences. and i'm wondering if that's being looked at. so if you could speak to the environmental side of it, if you would. >> let's all start off and say that from the environmental perspective, yes, we have a number of studies that are looking at various environmental toxins that may be contributing to problems with the development of alzheimer's. that's particularly assisted by projects that are looking at people in the long-term and looking at what has happened to them. we're also looking at education, looking at diet. looking at geographic location. all of those may contribute. i quite honestly do not know specifically about l

today there are over 414 million to the research funding, at nih. tom coles extraordinary leadership. the appropriations bill, if enacted, it was passed in september of 2000, of this year, including a $400 million increase for alzheimer's disease research at the national institutes of health, this would bring total funding to $1.8 billion. currently funded at 1.4 billion. research has almost tripled since 2015. shockingly, the majority of the people with alzheimer's or other forms of dementia, have not received a diagnosis, so they are unable to access the care and the treatment of symptoms that they so disprattly need. this is true in the developed world, it's even truer in the developing world. detection and diagnosis are a stubborn problem everywhere. research shows that most people have not received a final diagnosis. 20 to a50% of dementia are diagnoses. of course even when alzheimer's or other forms of dementia are diagnosed. care is too often fragmented to people living with this condition. i introduced the health outcomes education. to provi

. >> reporter: through research he found out about the clinical trial at nih and reached out to dr.o agreed to perform a complete gastrectomy and accept him into the clinical trial. only a if you have of these operations are performed every year. fogle had his stomach removed in october. >> i was really at peace with the decision. i was really calm. >> reporter: once the stomach is taken out the es-off gus intestine. that's where food absorption takes place in the body. afterward adjusting your diet is the challenging part. >> i eat things like smoothies. i eat yogurt, avocados. >> i've been 2 1/2 years now post-gastrectomy. everyone said to me once you get to two years you almost forget what it was like to have a stomach, and it's so true. >> reporter: we shared terry beach's story right after she had the stomach removal surgery a couple of years ago. now she works with no stomach for cancer, an advocacy group that raises awareness about the disease. at our request she agreed to meet with david fogle at his coffee shop in silver spring. >> you know what you can eat. you know what y

what we have said to them is everything we are suggesting to you is bipartisan, opioids, veterans, nih funding and the d.r.e.a.m. act. but the republicans decided the tax breaks for the wealthiest 1% for more important than addressing the crisis and lives of the american people. the same short-term republican cr on the floor today will needlessly keep a shadow of fear and uncertainty over our d.r.e.a.m.ers. i just spent almost 2 1/2 hours in the rules committee pleading with them to do this justice. and they're talking about comprehensive immigration. i said that's fine. we need to talk about comprehensive immigration reform. but my colleague, the chair of the hispanic caucus made an excellent point. she said we're talking about chip as a very discrete children's health program and we all agree we have to fund it and pass it. that doesn't mean we have to wait until we do everything everybody wants to do on health care in order to do this. same thing with the d.r.e.a.m.ers. it's a discrete emergency that we have now. let's deal with that in a discrete way instead of saying we have to wa

you know, i work at nih.tified in something like this. >> what'd he look like? >> he was bald, and he had a -- he's about my color. skinny guy, scruffy beard. i didn't see his face straight on. i wasn't trying to look at him directly. i'm not trying to look like i want to know who you are. >> reporter: after driving back to their building, eric and katrina spent the rest of the night watching the basketball game before they became focused on each other. >> excuse me, if this is too much information, but we had sex for a while, and i went to sleep. >> reporter: a little later, she told the detectives, she was woken up by the sound of eric talking to someone outside the bedroom through a crack in the door. katrina thought she could make out a face. and the man looked familiar. >> she believed the guy to be the drug dealer. >> reporter: the same guy she'd met earlier? >> yes. >> reporter: this was only hours before eric was murdered in his bed. detective ruvin now had another major suspect. >> so we concentrated

. >> he found out about the clinical trial at nih and reached out to dr. davis who agreed to perform a complete gas trek toem and accept him into the trial. fogel had his stomach removed in october. >> i was really at peace with the decision. i was really calm. >> once the stomach is taken out, the esophagus is attached to the small intestine. that's where food absorption takes place in the body. afterward, adjusting your diet is the challenging part. >> i eat things like smoothies are great. i eat yogurt, avocados. >> i've been 2 1/2rs gas trek tommy. >> once you get to two years, you forget what it's like to have a stomach. it's true. >> after she had the surgery a couple of years ago, now she works with no stomach for cancer, a group that raises awareness about the disease. >> at our request, she agreed to meet with david fogel at his coffee spot. >> what you can eat, what you can't. you get your energy back. i've gained weight and sustained where i am right now. i've been here almost a year now. >> super. >> i ran the 5k a year after. >> you look marve

nih scientists mapped the brains of artists like opera singer renee fleming.ng at which parts of her brain activate when they sing. their goal is to lead to better treatments for people with diseases like alzheimer's. >>> that's a quick look at what's going on. the news at 4:30 starts right now. >>> good wednesday morning. happy hump thank you for joining us this morning and waking up with us, man a pretty warm start at least outside thus farment miri marshall to see what the day holds for us. hey friend. >> hey good morning larry. good morning everybody. these are actually some of the warmest temperatures we'll have today. the temperatures gradually dropping throughout the day because we have some colder air filtering in behind a cold front that passed through the area. so 53 degrees right no and you should probably dress for 40s because that's what we'll experience throughout most of the day. by noon we're down to 49 degrees with a mix of sun and clouds and down to 44 degrees by 5:00 this afternoon. so we can see some clouds out there. most of the rain and t

our thanks to the doctors at nih and walter reed who have been treating him, he's doing well, in good, he's looking forward to heading back home to arizona for the holidays, our thanks to everyone who has been sending thoughts and prayers to the sector this week. we greatly appreciate it. he remains one of the toughest men on the face of the earth as you know. >> dickerson: that we know. send them again, our prayers to him and family. thank you. all right, so now to this week let's start with the tax bill, jeffrey is going to pass, get funded by the president unless something really crazy happens. >> which is not impossible in this america. >> dickerson: right. >> you're right, probably pass. dickerson: so, give us your sense of that, what that means? >> i think broadest political sense, i think that this takes donald trump's pretty bad year and might move it into the not bad category in the following sense. he started his term, first year with a supreme court victory, might end with a tax cut victory, a tax plan victory. it's a legislative victory might not be possible with a broad s

the nih, the fda will not fund any research that involves germ cell genetic manipulation, which this is what a germ cell is, the egg or the sperm or the embryo when it's first fertilized, occurred. and even look at in february, the national academy of science and medicine said that you can do basic research on genetic manipulation, but not germ cell that you will then implant into somebody, and therefore, not just change that individual, but change generations to come. and that's one of the concerns, we don't know what happens the next generation down and the next generation down. most things that people would gravitate to, you know, athleticism, intelligence are multiple traits. so, it's not like you can turn a switch and have somebody be smarter or somebody be more athletic. but there are some clear characteristics that you could potentially adjust. now, even now in the laboratory, when we do ivf, we can test an embryo and tell you which ones are healthy, which ones aren't. and there would be a way, if we did a more advanced testing, next generation sequencing in a more advanced le

that involves nih and institutions such as the college of southern maryland. what the congressman was talking about, making sure we're keeping track of how the programs we are implementing are doing so we can continue to make them better so we can spend money in the right place. we know we're not going to have enough money to solve this epidemic if we don't do it more efficiently and more effectively. advancing the practice of pain management so people don't continue to think of opioids as the only way to address acute and chronic pain. i can't tell you many stories i've heard around the country of the mother who just went in for a c-section and was sent home with 90 vicodin pills. of the person who went in for a wisdom tooth extraction and was sent home with oxycontin. the college football player who had a knee sprain and was medicated with opioids and went on to a pathway of addiction. a story i will share briefly, the high school quarterback in indiana whom i met sprained his knee and was given opioids for something that could've been treated with ice and i

. >> with this long-term study, doctors at nih say they will be able to see how people with year's timend perhaps they can do things that are less drastic than had he moving the stomach. >> absolutely. has he lost a lot of weight since having the procedure and is he going to have to stick to that type of a diet for a long hall? >> he's -- as i said in the piece, he's lost about 16 pounds. it's a little more like 20 pounds since we did that interview so he's losing weight and he's not hungry but, no, your diet is more restrictive at the beginning and it's a gradual process as your body gets used to it. >> incorporate salad foods in there? >> absolutely. >> incredible. >> it's exciting that that is an option that is working for people. >> doreen, thank you. >> sure. >>> how can you spark student technology and engineering and math? well, one way is to put them on a jet to teach them. some people got that chance at a center in chan tilly. they sponsor the live live 30 minute broadcast each month. >> our job is to get kids excited and we do that by allowing them to follow along on something

joining me now is s-e-i-u chief negotiator rob szykowny (sh-kawv-nih.) .reases their more than our workers. it forward is fair to that we passed it was a big saturday night in college football. the heisman trophy was awarded this evening. stanford running back bryce love finished second in the voting. the heisman trophy was given to oklahoma senior quarterback baker mayfield. mayfield is the only heisman winner ever to start his college career as a walk on. mayfield threw for more than 43-hundred yards, 41 touchdown passes and just 5 interceptions this season. during his speech tonight he thanked his family.(j.r.) the 118th army versus navy football game was held today in philadelphia and it was a good one. the snow was coming down in this one.

-- >> tell me exactly why this is so impressive when you have students who are doing internships at niht nasa. many other places and putting their minds to work. >> it's an impact. >> low socioeconomic background. it's preparing them for the 21st century engineering and technology and to complete out there -- compete out there in the real world. >> we're talking about competition for herme serks and the students in april. the other students are going to fire they've been doing this and working on this. principal brown supporting the students at flowers high school. how did hermes do so far? >>. [ applause ] >> all right. we're rooting them on for that competition coming up in april of next year for hermes. you guys are going to continue on with their learning. we're live here at flowers high school in prince george's county. back to you. >>> these robots have been the coolest thing all morning long. >> so many math and science skills being developed that will take these kids into the future. >>> 6:55 our time. here are four things to know. democrats may want to charge president trump wi

. >> through research he found out about the clinical trial at nih and reached out to dr. davis who agreed to perform a gas trek toem and accept him into the clinical trial. only a few of these operation rs performed in a year. he had his stomach removed in october. >> i was really at peace with the decision. i was really calm. >> once the stomach is taken out, the esophagus is attached directly to the small intestine. that's where food absorption takes place in the bo afterward, adjusting your diet is the challenging part. >> i eat things like smoothies, which are great. i eat yogurt, avocados. >> i've been 2 1/2 years now post gas trek toem. everyone said once you get to two years, you almost forget what it's like to have a stomach. it's so true. >> we shared terry beach's story after she had the surgery a couple of years ago. now she works with no stomach for cancer, a group that raises awareness about the disease. >> at our request she agreed to meet with david fogel at his coffee shop in silver spring. >> know what you can eat, know what you can't. i've gained weight

the nih has not had any real breakthroughs whatsoever everybody depends upon them to give them starts these things and the chemos are everybody works on chemos to make them a little bit better. these chemos are terrible. >> yeah. >> they're terrible. they only -- if you don't have anything, you're going to be gone in a month and a half or two. with chemo, you might get to six months, five months, seven months, might be month snine mo. that's what they keep doing. >> yeah. >> the laharpa, pull people together, companies, others, individuals, and get a lot of money on it. big projects and put timelines on it, two years, three years, let's go, start. fix it >> the corporate tax bill is being advanced now because it would bring back the corporate amt, end up discouraging the use of research and development credits that a lot of major companies i imagine including the pharmaceuticals rely on in order to employ scientists and pay them the wages that are necessary for this kind of development. is that a big problem as far as you're concerned that that would be potentially affected? >> i woul

i remember him saying if you find a cure for alzheimer's the amount of money that we gave nih in the 21st century cures act, it will pay for itself the amount of money we spend on treating this disease. i thank you both for your work, the people who will benefit. thank you all. >> thank you. let me conclude and ask you, the 2017 action plan, on november 13th we know the gates foundation announced 10 to $0 million for alzheimer's research. your opinion of the action plan and the steps is a government approach for yourselves. do you feel it will be tran transformational? >> i think as they age they realize it's a risk that is before them as well. so their investment is really appreciated and shows the broadening of global interest in this endeavor. i think the fact that there is an action plan is also wonderful recognition of the problem globally. it remains to be seen how this will be rolled out. the fact that it's there and recognized and recognized by so many partners is an awakening to the importance of the burden of this disease for all of us globally. >> thank you. >> i would jus

there were times at nih when patients were trying to do everything, unusual things and the doctor didn't know about. and eventually it was found out that these things didn't work. but they were popular because they had no other choice. >> yeah. so the power of antidote is incredibly strong, and the power of vice is incredibly strong. those are two things that are think a very recurrent issues that you see. if someone we trust says that they use some snake oil and worked incredibly well, you will go along with that because you trust them. a lot of the patent medicines in the late 1800s and early 1900s that were being sold all over the place and had these really ridiculous claims that couldn't help of work based on the fact that a lot of the advertisements said mrs. baker says this shared her, you know, hair problem immediately and i will buy this for everyone. all those things feed into your psyche and make you believe what you want to believe. they really do work along those lines of bias which of these incredibly powerful, very subtle methods of manipulating all of us with everything th

postal service to raise awareness from the money with sales going to the nih. for two years but today maryland senator chris van hollen along with other lawmakers will introduce legislation to make it available for six years. steve. >> ♪ >> time for the morning line. we'll keep it real quick for you this morning. let's start on the ice right now. caps what a great start last night first period the entire first line scored. they poured it on. three goals in the first. then they won six to two. tom wilson with two goals and two assists being doing great on that number one line. nick backstrom ended his 21 game stretch without a goal. that's a long time for him. about a quarter of the season. 37 saves for braden holtby. caps win for the sixth time in seven games. they're turning eight around. they host the rangers tomorrow night. >>> in the nfl roger goodell taking a lot of heat from a lot of people everywhere except the nfl owners who have agreed that goodell should get a five year contract extension. that means he will be the commissioner of the league through 2

it wasn't on my calendar, but when i learned the funding for nih and alzheimer research might be in jeopardynd practically ran here to say this just cannot do. wait a minute, there must be some mistake here. i know that this committee is well aware of the crisis unfolding in homes across this country i know you know about it first hand and i know you know about it from the people that you represent, but let me use this moment to remind you here on the committee and the american public just with up-to-date fact really is and trust me, these are real facts. every 66 seconds another brain will develop alzheimer's disease. two thirds of those brains belong to women, two thirds of them and no one knows why that is a woman in her early 60s is twice as likely to get alzheimer's in her lifetime then she is to get breast cancer and the statistics are even more alarming for women of color. african-american women are twice as likely to develop alzheimer's as caucasian women and latinas one and one half times more likely. on top of that more than 15 million americans are caring for someone with alzheime

he was talking about funding for the national institutes of health, nih, and he said we did discover, they spent a million dollars trying to determine whether male fruit flies like younger female fruit flies. think we could have polled the audience and saved a million bucks he gets a laugh because is does sound ridiculous. if that is actually what you're doing. but that's not even close. it's only like in the very be a sis of sense is correct and only without any sort of context. the lab he was actually talking about was at the university of michigan, and they do work on basically how healthy sexuality can promote healthy aging, and it's the connection between sexuality and aging and other lines of research in this, but when you put it that way, it certainly done sound as ridiculous. might actually be very useful, and you can do this for some much when it comes to basic research and especially basic research that involves model organisms like a fruit fly. it can sound ridiculous, or a mouse, or a zebra fish. very valuable model organizisms that scientists use. won't sound reasonable u

i suspect a lot of pushback from the nih thinking it's a competitor. it's not a competitor.ses the resource that is the government invested in and basic research, national science foundation and nih and we've got the people lined up to do it. it's just -- stuart: get it done, bob. >> a huge change. i want to say one thing, one thing because i know -- this is about the tax bill. people don't understand that as a result of this, we are going to decrease by 50% the number of people that itemize deductions and we are going to end up the situation this year, 85% of the people that are filing tax returns are going to be doing it because without any deductions, it will be a simple piece of paper, that is exactly what the president was harping about for a long time and that's what it's going to be. the other 15% which include me and other people will have to figure out what to do and may not be so attractive. 75% of households will get a simple piece of paper. stuart: okay, that's good news. you're all right. we are both going to move to florida. thanks for joining us bob wright. >>

negotiating was a waste of time for more on this and speaks to graham way of who's a research fellow at the nih young technological university's institute for defense and strategic studies he's via skype from singapore thank you very much for speaking to us so what do you make of what appears to be a new tone from washington do you think a change in tactic from the americans could yield something positive here. first of all i want to see that it is a welcome response to have a think of the being offered by the u.s. administration in particular the u.s. secretary of state next to listen in removing the preconditions for the direct discussion with the north koreans but one would have expected that the americans who called you know that we thought few weeks ago when our in the aftermath of the in the clinton continental ballistic missile test it remember that all the objects were offered americans were going to tighten up and take a more militaristic position in trying to resolve the crisis so i think this is a welcome response now what remains to be seen going forward is the shipment for possible

we have studies going on that nih and others are involved with looking at the symptoms and we know some of the genetic vulnerabilities looking at family history. so we could know how to focus on and that's what we need to do. we need to focus on people who we can identify as high risk. >> so it's interesting to hear how optimistic that the services are provided that things can get better? >> i absolutely believe that. but i will tell you one other thing and i wanted to be able to speak about this before we end our discussion and that is, while we can discuss the now way of providing care we can't do it without provideds and we have severe share contagiouses. psychiatry is one of the oldest. unfortunately we're getting older and we only turn-out about 1200 psychiatrists from residencies every year. one of the things i want the talk about is how to bring more health professionals into the field. more residency slots and more for addiction and we also need other behavioral health providers so i see nurse practitioners and physician assistance and advance practice clinicians as extremely im

collins of the nih and the human genome useful. him especially i'm glad to know that people like you, dr. gottlieb, and dr. collins have the knowledge on the issues you will be dealing with every day. are issues costs this committee has studied to better understand challenges and find solutions. we plan to hold a third hearing on how the but that is where we d most of our debate and discussion. as i mentioned, 9 million individual markets don't qualify for subsidy. they are really getting hammered by skyrocketing prices. intimacy, premiums have increased 176% in four years and in addition -- in tennessee, premiums have increased 176%. senator murray and i and members this committee worked on an agreement cosponsored by 11 other republicans and 11 other democrats which the congressional budget office says will prevent a 25% price 2020 by in premiums by paying all sharing subsidies, decreasing dollars spent on a sea of premiums, and as result, lower the deficit. it will give the states authority to use the waiver in the law to find o

but when i learned that the funding for nih and alzheimer's research might be in jeopardy, i practically here to say this cannot be. wait a minute. there must be some mistake here. i know that this committee is well aware of this crisis unfolding in homes across the country. i know you know about it first hand and i know you note about it -- you know about it from the people you represent. let me use this moment to remind the committee and the public just what the up-to-date facts really are and these are real facts. every 66 seconds another brain will develop alzheimer's disease and two thirds of those brains belong to women. and no one knows why that is. a woman in her early 60's is twice as likely to get alzheimer's in her lifetime than .he is to get breast cancer in the statistics are even more alarming for women of color. african-american women are twice as likely to develop alzheimer's , and latinaswomen 1.5 times more likely. more than 15 million americans are curing with someone -- caring for someone with alzheimer's or other form of dementia while also. ting and holding down ful

collins knowledge of nih and experience in the genome projelkt has made him an effective leader at the national institutes of health. so i'm glad to know that you will have the experience you need. health care costs and drug pricing are issues this committee has studied to find solutions. we plan to hold a third hearing on how the supply chain effects what patients pay on december 12 to hear from the national academies. i would welcome your input as we continue to kbamen the price patients pay when picking up their preskripgdss. it's much broader than health insurance and only about 6% of the insured americans purchase their insurance in the individual market. but that is where we have had had much of their debate and discussion. 9 million individual market don't qualify for a subsidy and they're getting hammered by sky rocketing prices. premiums have increased in four years and additional 58% for this coming year. both congress and the administration need act to provide relief for these americans. senator murray and i members of this committee worked on an agreement co sponsored by 11

afternoon at a forum on philanthropy and science and innovation and together with francis, head of nih and matthew of the white house and it's being hosted by the science philanthropy alliance, mark castor is the head of that and i'm going to use the council on competitiveness as a great example of bringing public and private entities together successfully to drive innovation through discovery. organizations like the council have consistently encouraged the national climate in which science and engineering discovers have adapted to new changes we continue to thrive in centuries of progress have led us to the verge of new frontiers of discovery. but we still have a lot of challenges and we face all sorts of concerns at home and abroad and of course we have a very big challenge of educating and inspiring future innovators and i think that is why people at the national science foundation and a lot of people at the council and in this room that is one of our major concerns, how to inspire them and they in turn can inspire the world. we have navigated a lot of major barriers in order to com

importantly we see increase in government global research spend increase as well in particular, the nihed $2 billion in 2017 and the senate and appropriation committee approved and increase in 2018. >> right science and tools of a 40% today. a nice performance of that sub sector >> and other biotech that you had and expectations of 2017 was there is going to be a lot of con consolidation. we have not had many -- >> i think you mentioned the gilead, it will increase activities in 2018 i think we'll see a company taken over in 2018 i think with evaluations being a little depressed in both sectors and some companies may find it contract activity a attractive >> so you are talking about a big farm are we going to see pharma or biotech. >> you look at pharma of 50% of its compound a lot of compounds are pharmaceuticals. today, biotech and pharma sector is more of the same. jeffery lou, i am going to leave it there >> thank you >> coming up, cnbc will host our first healthcare conference, "healthy returns," it is wednesday on march 28th, 2018 in new york city. for more information, you can ge

people come up to me and say thank you, they gave me the first grant i ever had and now i've gone on to nih, national support funds me for my mission oriented work, but that very first grant, we were the first grant to the originators of gene editing. the first grant for 3d printing. i think they would be pleased to see today that for the first time in this past couple months since we moved headquarters from arlington virginia to alexandria that we brought, that we had made a statue. it's hard to imagine that a person who has such a decisive impact on science and technology 70 years ago, that there are no statues of him around so we investigated and found in the basement of an out building of the smithsonian, there is one that stands about this tall and it's bronze and it was made back in the 1940s with a number of other famous people. the smithsonian wouldn't give it to us so we 3d printer the. it looks just like the real thing. you have to come visit us. it was all painted browns and nicely toned and rubbed in the right places. so the neighbors back at this home, i think he would be, he w

the executives in the country in new jersey and those that agree partnership they would work with the nih to come up with two different solutions to the problem. and more alternative treatment. we have three in the country and there should be more. they could address the positions if they are not moving forward. they need to be the ex- apartments for moving forward with to make sure we work in partnership to get these things to market as quickly as possible. the consumer that wants to avoid the addiction that would be more helpful. insurance companies play a large role in this house of. why don't you change the regulation and make sure. middle-class folks that have employer provided health insurance and right now most of them do not. 70% are regulated so we say why have they not stepped in? they don't have the authority to do it for mental health act they do not allow the department of labor to find an insurance company who isn't treating the addiction and they don't allow the department of labor to investigate the companies a it s the employer by employer. how ridiculous is that? we enco