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Wright describes Rudenstine as particularly effective in strengthening the university's academic departments, particularly in the sciences. "[Starting] from nothing really, he built a small but very powerful department of molecular biology," Wright says...
Experience: Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at the National Institutes of Health...
Priscilla A. Schaffer, a Harvard professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, also sees high indirect cost rates as a concern. Although NIH--the Medical School's largest federal grant sponsor--may be indirect-cost blind, Schaffer worries that an economic downturn may move the agency to change that policy...
...Harvard's Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Bernard N. Fields agrees...
Families like Maria Burkhardt's are rare, accounting for a tiny fraction of breast-cancer cases. But the malevolent genes they pass down through the generations are beginning to yield important clues to all breast malignancies. "Cancer," declares celebrated molecular biologist James D. Watson, "is a disease of the DNA," the master molecule that encodes the genetic blueprint for every living cell. Tumors develop as the result of rearrangements in DNA, specifically in the genes that govern cell growth...