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Science 19 May 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5776, p. 985
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5776.985c
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A going-away party for the director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has been postponed after questions of propriety arose. Andrew von Eschenbach, who is also acting chief of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and has been nominated to head the agency, was to be the subject of a 17 May reception and roast until The Cancer Letter questioned the invitation's statement that "gift contributions [are] also welcome." Federal ethics rules bar gift solicitations for a superior; the National Institutes of Health makes an exception if the official has resigned, but von Eschenbach hasn't yet and also regulates NCI clinical trials at FDA. NCI says the event has been postponed, and "there will not be a gift."




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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)