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January 11, 2000
Varmus Leaves NIH with Vision for Enhancing New York Biotech
Quick Response Lauded in Medical Emergency
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Final Meeting as NIH Director Varmus, Advisors Discuss Budget Growth, Construction at 79th ACD By Carla Garnett
With the ink not yet dry on NIH's fourth-straight large budget
increase, Dr. Harold Varmus presided over his 13th and final
meeting of the advisory committee to the NIH director (ACD) on
Dec. 2. President Clinton had signed just a week earlier the FY
2000 omnibus spending bill that represented another step closer to
the goal of some advocates to double the agency's appropriation by
2004.
Comic, Highbrow Fun By Rich McManus
This is what happens when the Saturday Night Live generation bids
adieu to a hero: the "Farewell and Tribute to Harold Varmus" on
Dec. 16 in a crowded Masur Auditorium featured heartfelt sincerity,
videotaped greetings from President Clinton and Rep. John Porter, a
cracklingly witty segment of videotaped reminiscences from Varmus
hires and associates, a typically broad-looking and
informative — poetic, even — reflection on leavetaking
by Varmus, and lastly a trio of rock-and-roll numbers by The
Directors, whose lyrics urged their esteemed leader to "stay, just a
little bit longer."
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