[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7247]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE AWARDED NEW RESEARCH GRANTS

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, today Buffalo's Roswell Park Cancer 
Institute was awarded $33 million in new research grants from the 
National Institutes of Health.
  This funding will support research to develop new therapies for 
prostate cancer, for head and neck cancer, and to advance the great 
promise of immunotherapy, which is research to unleash the cancer-
killing potential from the body's own immune system.
  Under the leadership of Dr. Candace Johnson, Roswell Park scientists 
are providing hope and the potential for healing to millions here and 
throughout the world. In Buffalo, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute is 
helping to fuel an economic renaissance that has captured the attention 
of the Nation.
  Nationally, the National Institutes of Health's funding supports over 
400,000 good-paying American jobs. Congress needs to fully fund cancer 
research for the National Institutes of Health because, on this issue, 
if American leadership is not there, there is no leadership.

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