By Kevin Begos

A New Director for the National Cancer Institute

Harold Varmus takes the lead as the new head of the NCI

By Kevin Begos

President Obama has named Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize–winning researcher and former head of the National Institutes of Health, as the National Cancer Institute's new director.

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