Tom Harkin

A year ago or so maybe, I was visiting my office.

I think stroke remains still one of the feared things that can happen to someone.

I am also interested in Parkinson's disease.

Are you saying that diabetes is a leading indicator for having a stroke?

I appreciate that. How many more universities are doing this? What is their timetable, that type of thing.

I have been hearing about this. Seventeen years I have been hearing about regenerating hair cells.

This is a genetic intervention?

Well, if they have been doing guinea pigs for a couple years and they have gotten some pretty good results, I am just wondering how soon they might be ready to take it to a higher order of mammals.

I thought you told me that it was just birds.

When do you think you will be ready to go to higher mammals?

Let us get into the whole thing of regeneration of hair cells.

That is true. That is very true.

One of the biggest fears that parents have when their kids go off to college is just this, binge drinking.

Are you doing research into this?

Are you doing any research into this?

You are doing some research in that, the different messages and how young people are affected by this?

What kind of research are you doing into binge drinking, especially among college students?

I wonder about messages that young people receive about drinking.

So you are doing outreach?

Doctor, every Institute out there needs to do outreach.

Well, now that you are on that, what medications?

The only other point, just a very basic question. You talked about drug abuse being a chronic disease. How do we know it is really a disease?

Well, it seems to me that we ought to be paying more attention to this other area also.

The single largest cause of young women dropping out of college is eating disorders.

You are expanding a program called Human Genetics, Epigenetics, and Genomics Underlying Mental Disorders.