HPV vaccine discoverer to lead NCI after Varmus exit
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
With the exit at the end of this month from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of Dr Harold Varmus, who is stepping down as director after five years to open a research laboratory at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and serve as an adviser to its dean, Dr Douglas Lowy, the agency's deputy director, will now take the reins as acting chief.