And, in a speech before a packed auditorium at the NIH Clinical Center, the President praised the contributions of NIH staff. The President toured the NIH Vaccine Research Center, and met with scientists who are working hard to develop ways to combat this deadly virus that continues to devastate West Africa. Today, we had the great honor of welcoming President Barack Obama to the campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD-to see first-hand the progress that biomedical research is making against Ebola virus disease. Francis Collins went on to write in the blog:
