It s a special pleasure for me to join you today at the National Institutes of Health. I want to thank the officers and members of the NIH Alumnae Association and congratulate Mr. Baldwin on his able leadership of this organization. I also want to pay special thanks to the National Institutes of Health, for its very positive, long term influence in Montgomery County.
Leadership is the prevailing theme of biotechnology in Montgomery County.
NIH s national and global leadership in the biomedical arena is long-standing and unsurpassed. This kind of leadership implies innovation. Many of you here today have helped build NIH s reputation for scientific innovation - expanding our knowledge and understanding of human biology and health. Medical practitioners benefit daily from NIH's research results and resources for diagnosis and treatment improvements. Of course, your work at NIH is most important to the people throughout the world whose lives are changed through better medical care.