No.311 オリジナル英文

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Obama Announces $5 Billion in Medical Research Grants
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President Obama visited the sprawling National Institutes of Health, near Washington, and said the expenditure is vital to improving public health.

"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."

The grants include $175 million for the Cancer Genome Atlas, to map the way genetic changes affect cancer.

The White House says the cancer study involves more than 150 scientists at dozens of institutions around the country.

And this has extraordinary potential to help us better understand and treat this disease."

Mr. Obama says much of the research being conducted at the National Institutes of Health would not have taken place in the corporate world.

"Some research does not lend itself to quick profit.

That’s why places like the NIH were founded.

And that’s why my administration is making a historic commitment to research and the pursuit of discovery."

The president also promoted the grants as a way to stimulate the economy by putting researchers, educators and medical equipment makers to work.

"They’ll create new jobs, tens of thousands of jobs; conducting research and manufacturing, and supplying medical equipment, and building and modernizing laboratories and research facilities all across America."

Before he spoke about the grants, Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius toured a cancer-research laboratory.

The president looked through a microscope at brain cells as researchers explained the difference between healthy and cancerous cells.

Kent Klein, VOA News, the White House