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Strategies for an Era of Tighter Research Budgets

Wednesday, April 1, 2015


Photo of Dr. Harold VarmusDr. Harold Varmus Harold E. Varmus, a co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, left the federal government last month after serving as director of the National Institutes of Health and, for the past five years, as the head of its largest division, the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Varmus began work this month as a university professor of medicine and a senior adviser to the dean at the Weill Cornell Medical College, in New York. Just before leaving Washington, Dr. Varmus visited The Chronicle of Higher Education to discuss the budgetary challenges facing the NIH, their likely effect on younger scientists, and the future of medical research in the United States.

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