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...prize first catapulted him from a professor responsible for a couple dozen researchers to a supervisor of 13,000 scientists and policymakers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), whose pronouncements about scientific research were front-page news...
Many members of the scientific community were excited when Varmus was chosen for the NIH post, but worried about his inexperience in administrative matters...
...When Harold went to assume the directorship of the NIH, none of us was exactly sure how it would work out because he had never had a position of great administrative responsibility," Weindruck said. "But it worked out brilliantly. He turned out to be an extraordinary director and an excellent spokesman for the scientific community...
Varmus's tenure at NIH saw enormous success for the institute, both in gaining bipartisan political support and in recruiting talenting researchers. The New Yorker called Varmus perhaps "the most effective backstairs politician the Clinton Administration has produced." Congress gave him the highest compliment of all: a $5 billion funding increase...
...BREASTS Back in 1992, NIH scientists were asked by Congress to study the safety of silicone breast implants. The first part of their investigation, completed in November, studied breast-cancer rates in 13,500 women who had breast implants (most of them silicone) and 4,000 who did not. Results: the implant patients showed no added risk for breast cancer when compared with the controls. Researchers warn, however, that further studies are needed to determine whether the implants are linked to other cancers or connective-tissue disorders...