National Institutes of Health - Obama Presidency Oral History National Institutes of Health Index / Organizations Transcripts Carolyn Britton ...[Food and Drug Administration] and the NIH [National Institutes of Health] an... ...and Drug Administration] and the NIH [ National Institutes of Health ] and these different agencies to mak... Rahm Emanuel ...like, Specter wanted ten billion for NIH [National Institutes of Health]. Tha... ...Specter wanted ten billion for NIH [ National Institutes of Health ]. That was his price of entry. So th... ...are coming down, but, “I want more for NIH .” And Susan Collins had her list... Thomas Kalil ...of those, whether it was investments in NIH [National Institutes of Health], or th... ...whether it was investments in NIH [ National Institutes of Health ], or the National Science Foundation... ...interacting with the leadership of the National Institutes of Health , DARPA, the Defense Advanced Researc... ...support in the Congress, and for the NIH component of the BRAIN Initiative... ...new capabilities, which DARPA used, and NIH used, to deal with the curren... ...which supports increases in the NIH budget, and you have academic medica... ...a bipartisan agreement to double the NIH budget. My grant is a result of tha... ...“It's great that Congress doubled the NIH budget, but US economic competitivenes... ...science, then we have agencies, namely, NIH , Department of Defense, Department o... Show more... Harold Varmus ...cancers; the former director of the NIH [National Institutes of Health] ; and... ...the former director of the NIH [ National Institutes of Health ] ; and, for the purposes of thi... ...was a tremendous help to me when I was NIH director during the Clinto... ...but only a few weeks after I arrived as NIH director, she came out for a full da... ...she came out for a full day to NIH , and we took her through a bunch o... ...night before the day she came out to NIH working with Chelsea [Clinton] on th... ...obviously loved her day at the NIH , and she said, “I'm going to get Bil... ...as you know, Clinton was a fan of the NIH , did a lot of things that are stil... ...Walker Bush was a great supporter of NIH , but there were a lot of issues abou... ...but there were a lot of issues about NIH —especially NIH—that were in the ai... ...a lot of issues about NIH—especially NIH —that were in the air about the qualit... ...allowed the erosion of the doubling of NIH 's budget, so there was no doubt i... ...the loss of real dollars in the NIH budget that occurred because o... ...several years after the doubling of the NIH —I think those things and others mad... ...suited to be an institute director at NIH . I had been director of NIH overall i... ...director at NIH. I had been director of NIH overall in the Clinton Administration... ...were pleased by what I had done at the NIH as director in the 1990's, who wante... ...fun—he wanted to know about my time at NIH director. Did I want that job back? ... ...an organization, what I did at the NIH , how I worked there, and it wasn'... ...my advantage to have been the head of NIH and to have a certain stature in th... ...CDC [Centers for Disease Control], the NIH in vaccine development, and th... ...agencies, such as Tony Fauci from NIH , came to our workshops and spoke... ...say, CDC, NIH , and FDA on the vaccine side, wer... ...occur somatically, during life. When NIH was asked what we could do to make us... ...led, in part, to my leaving the NIH , because Francis Collins had a totall... ...that no one had ever gone from being an NIH director, as I was from 1993 to 1999... ...discord. It's always difficult for the NIH director to deal with the NCI director... ...biggest budget among the components of NIH , its director is the only institut... ...my NCI directors when I was head of NIH . I made a pledge that I would make i... ...already built by the NCI and other NIH institutes. But Francis clearly wante... ...was newly created and fully owned by NIH . All of Us has done very littl... ...money of this sort goes through NIH . If you spend a billion or two a yea... ...a pretty significant chunk of the NIH budget, and it's not embedded in th... ...big report that looked at Energy- NIH linkage and collaboration. I wonder i... ...of energy in '98, '99, I used NIH money to help him support the DO... ...used in structural biology research by NIH investigators, so he had called m... ...first high-level demonstrations of DOE- NIH collaboration. When you go t... ...centers were very appreciative of NIH having made an investment. And ther... ...of Science continue to pay attention to NIH collaborations with DOE. I don't kno... ...is done at DOE and the way it's done at NIH . We had provisions in the report tha... ...trained with DOE dollars understood how NIH works and vice versa. We hoped to ge... ...science through the national labs, the NIH prizing the R01 [Research Projec... ...is important; and, of course, NIH does a lot of team science—fo... ...the human genome project, which the NIH led, and many other things. And all o... ...historically, and also within DOE and NIH , that made this collaboratio... ...be better appreciated. When I ran the NIH , the thing that was most relevant t... ...mentioned—people talk about my reign at NIH , they say, “Oh, he doubled th... ...did the splits come from? Well, for NIH , there's only one person who reall... ...to the impact, both good and bad at NIH , and that's Arlen Specter. Becaus... ...if you give ten billion dollars to the NIH .” [Laughs] You don't always want wha... ...you said Specter was responsible for NIH . I get that, but ARRA has a lot o... ...if you look at ARRA dollars and regular NIH dollars, that ten years later that th... ...open science, starting in my days at NIH director when I wrote a kind o... ...an open, full-text library at the NIH PubMed Central. The open-acces... ...Zerhouni, who was my successor at the NIH . One of my goals when I was in th... ...for a public digital library as NIH director, I was basically threatened b... ...member of the scientific community as NIH director was most acute when I wa... ...of things about Obama coming to the NIH , but you'll hear about that from othe... ...to know who I was when he came to the NIH and greeted me warmly, but I think ... ...going around Collins when I was in the NIH . I thought I'd have a higher degree o... ...after serving as director of the entire NIH —I made something possible fo... ...made something possible for subsequent NIH directors. I learned personally tha... ...is a lot more fun than being the NIH director. Tony Fauci is vindicated i... ...years of rejecting the promotion to NIH director. [Laughs] He's much better of... Show more... Robert McDonald ...with government money through the NIH [National Institutes of Health]... ...with government money through the NIH [ National Institutes of Health ], through the VA. The VA does about ... Bess Evans ...with the exception of getting their NIH [National Institutes of Health] grant... ...the exception of getting their NIH [ National Institutes of Health ] grant. The idea of political advocac... John Holdren ...of the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health , NASA [National Aeronautics and Spac... ...on that. But Francis Collins at the NIH , the National Institutes of Health... ...But Francis Collins at the NIH, the National Institutes of Health , Tom Frieden at the Centers fo... ...NSF administrator, the director of the National Institutes of Health , the chief scientist of the Departmen... ...been a pretty reliable supporter of the National Institutes of Health , not least because they know the NI... ...Health, not least because they know the NIH is working on the cures of disease... Show more... Regina Benjamin ...for example, would be through the NIH [National Institutes of Health]... ...for example, would be through the NIH [ National Institutes of Health ], through the CDC [Centers for Diseas... ...been over time. But it also involved NIH , Substance Abuse. It involved FDA. I... ...mutually developed with the CDC or the NIH ? How does that work if there ar... ...being the other [unclear], the CDC or NIH or whatever—often have the scientist... ...departments, they're in agencies, like NIH or CDC. They're located—we hav... Show more... Ernest Moniz ...That meeting occurred at Los Alamos. NIH [National Institutes of Health] wa... ...meeting occurred at Los Alamos. NIH [ National Institutes of Health ] was part of that meeting. And NI... ...Health] was part of that meeting. And NIH rejected the idea of doing tha... ...And after about a couple of years, NIH realized, We'd better get on tha... ...train, and, in fact, lead the train. So NIH became the leader of the Human Genom... ...again, there's no dispute. Clearly the NIH appropriately would have the lead. The... ...starting in 2013, the relationship with NIH was very different from what it was wa... ...Genome Project. In particular, the NIH really wanted to have the capabilitie... ...to them. Francis Collins—who was NIH director and as we speak today still i... ...director and as we speak today still is NIH director—he called one day early in m... ...many other issues. In particular, the NIH and Francis Collins had a major focu... ...of cancer in his family. That's why NIH has so much money; because everybod... ...to get prostate cancer or something. So NIH would always have great access. So, h... ...language in the bill that says that the NIH and DOE and our national laboratorie... ...I will make sure that both NIH and DOE are aware that they have now ... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the East Wing East Wing go to the Science Science go to the Black Politics Black Politics go to the Russia Russia