President Barack Obama Speaks at the Clinical Center
One of the first faces President Barack Obama saw upon entering the Clinical
Center on September 30 was that of Susan Butler, longtime CC patient.
"Welcome to the House of Hope," said Susan Butler, a long-time Clinical
Center patient and 14-year survivor of simultaneous breast and ovarian cancer,
in welcoming President Barack Obama here Sept. 30.
Obama traveled with Department of Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius to speak to the NIH community on The American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act. "Today we're announcing that we've awarded $5
billion–that's with a "b"–in grants through the Recovery Act to conduct
cutting-edge research all across America, to unlock treatments to diseases that
have long plagued humanity, to save and enrich the lives of people all over the
world. This represents the single largest boost to biomedical research in
history," Obama said.
Funds went to expand the Cancer Genome Atlas, "to make strides in the
treatment and prevention of heart disease," and to study autism, the president
said.
Obama closed with a word to NIH intramural and extramural researchers: "The
American people are looking forward to the next set of discoveries that all of
you are working on today."
Watch a videocast
of his speech or read a transcript at http://whitehouse.gov.
This
article originally appeared on the NIH Clinical
Center News website.