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...choice of Steve was only unusual in that he was relatively young, but he had incredible credentials,” says Harold E. Varmus, who as NIH director helped recruit Hyman to lead NIMH. “He was highly articulate, very energetic, and popular in the scientific community...
Harold E. Varmus, former director of the National Institute of Health, said that there were other similar efforts, including Stanford’s “Bio-X” interdisciplinary science center, but that the Broad collaboration was a powerful...
...Harold Varmus, the head of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital, would be a terrific pick to fit those criteria. If Summers plans to turn Cambridge-Allston into BioMed Valley, he needs more scientific expertise to back him up and iron out the details. Varmus, who did graduate work in English at Harvard, has the benefit of a broad academic background and solid reputation—in fact, his name was bantered about not so long ago for the job Summers currently holds. All the business savvy of Daniel, Harper, Houghton, Rubin and Summers doesn’t matter unless they...
...This is a political issue that deals with scientific publishers taking research paid for by the federal government and then imposing restraints by yielding copyrights and making a profit, said Harold E. Varmus, Director of Sloan Kettering Hospital and an advocate for free archive distribution. “The current publishing model is outdated...
...This is the correct business model and will be an outlet for people to publish once they catch on,” Varmus said...