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When National Institutes of Health then-President Harold Varmus tapped Hyman for the NIMH post in 1996, Hyman was presented with a mammoth task—balancing the needs of scientists, politicians, and patients—and a $1 billion budget...
...years since, Fauci has set a frenetic pace, often working an 80-hour week. He runs NIAID with a hands-on style and, as former NIH director Harold Varmus once commented, "an iron fist." With Fauci at the helm, NIAID's annual budget soared from $320 million in 1984 to $2.4 billion this year. He has already won over new Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who calls Fauci "one of the most passionate HIV/AIDS researchers in the world today...
Melton has been the most outspoken faculty advocate for federal funding. On Tuesday, Melton wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal with former Director of the NIH and President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Harold Varmus, laying out their vision for how the scientific community should go forward from Bush’s political decision...
Melton and Varmus concluded that even if questions about the cells viability are answered, efforts to ammend Bush’s decision should continue. “If all goes well...will the president’s ruling ultimately need amendment?” Varmus and Melton wrote...
...list. So did Clark, Fineberg, Summers, Sullivan. Others did not. Condi Rice was too busy getting George W. Bush elected president to deal with the Harvard presidency. Richard Klausner, director of the National Center Institute, just did not seem to have “it.” Varmus, it turned out, was not interested...