U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, toured the Allen Institute—which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Senator Murray visited the brain sciences, neural dynamics, cell sciences, and immunology labs and heard from top scientists about the groundbreaking work the Institute has been doing.
Senator Murray is a longstanding champion of biomedical research in Congress. Throughout her time as the leader of the Appropriations Subcommittee on health issues, Senator Murray worked in a bipartisan way time and again to significantly increase funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Last Congress she also successfully passed legislation establishing a new agency, ARPA-H, focused on revolutionizing the nation’s approach to cutting-edge biomedical research.
