Subcommittee on Research & Technology Hearing - Policies to Spur Innovative Medical Breakthroughs from Laboratories to Patients
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2014
Time: 09:00 AM
Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building Washington D.C. 20515
Opening Statements
Ranking Member Dan Lipinski (D-IL) of the Subcommittee on Research & Technology
Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) - for the record
Witnesses
Dr. Harold Varmus, Director, National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President and Carson Family Professor, Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, The Rockefeller University
Dr. Jay Keasling, Hubbard Howe Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biochemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Professor Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley; Director, Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center
Dr. Craig Venter, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, J. Craig Venter Institute, Synthetic Genomics, Inc., and Human Longevity, Inc.