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Science 28 April 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5466, p. 587
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5466.587a
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BIOMEDICAL POLICY:
NIH Nomination on Hold for This Year

Eliot Marshall

Four months after Harold Varmus resigned as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the agency has learned that it will have to go without a permanent chief for at least the rest of this year and probably for part of 2001. Deputy NIH director Ruth Kirschstein, a veteran research manager and former head of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, who took charge of NIH in January, will continue as acting chief.

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