So if you put up more money, you get more applications?
There is no conversation that I've ever had about the grant system that doesn't have an incredible sense of consensus that it is not working...
You, Senator, have been a leading light, and a much needed, advocate for the NIH.
I think it's important for us to develop new metrics to determine the potential of innovative research.
Congress is very anxious to support you and make the most generous allocations that we can to the National Institutes of Health.
I have some reluctance to see cancer treatment slowed up by the presence of you six distinguished scientists here this morning, so I will tr...
Do you think there is the capacity with our research ingenuity to pretty much eradicate the radical maladies of the world, with sufficient d...
The $10 billion allocation from the stimulus package has created a wave of excitement with the availability of 15,000 grants.
NIH has been described as the crown jewel of the Federal Government and some say it is the only jewel of the Federal Government.
Well, of course, you need incremental progress, but do you think that a focus there crowds out a more transformative opportunity?
While work is underway to reform our Nation's healthcare delivery system, we must continue to make medical research a national priority.
you yourself experience Senator Specter, is that it causes a risk of instability to the patients DNA or chromosomes.
We are searching for cures.
It is scandalous that more has not been done since war was declared on cancer in 1970.
You talk about undertaking high-risk projects. The information in the New York Times article pointed out that on the category of Pioneer Awa...
But did you have excessive radiation?
Well, what are you doing to correct this kind of problem here and nationally?
We are obviously concerned about what happened here, but we are also very concerned about what the practices are by the VA nationally.
