"I appreciate the work we have done together. As you said, this is in my, in all likelihood, last NIH hearing."
"If there is one lesson to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that our Nation's success depends on medical research infrastructure."
"I think there is some discussion where they may graduate in some way to where they continue to exist."
"One of the things we were most concerned about 8 years ago was the fact that young researchers were leaving the field."
"One of my proudest accomplishments is realigning the priorities within the Labor/HHS bill to focus on medical research."
"I would encourage that. I think every single home test for COVID comes out of the RADx experience."
"I am asking that, or if there should be some 'new normal' approval process, now that we have had, I think two vaccines, and 20 treatments developed through those partnerships?"
"You can't have standard care if you are still discovering things that needs to be looked at as an option."
"I think that decision is going to have some pretty long-term consequences, particularly the CMS decision."
"But over the past 7 years, NIH funding has increased nearly 50 percent."
"Now is not the time to abandon that goal, now is the time, in fact, to make it even stronger."