NIH Director Francis S. Collins

October 7, 2015 | Aline Barros

2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to NIH Grantees

National Institute of Health (NIH) grantees received the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Paul Modrich, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Duke University School of Medicine, and Aziz Sancar, of the University of North Carolina, received the award for their work on “mapping, at a molecular level, how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the […]

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March 5, 2015 | Staff Writer

Varmus Steps Down as Director of NIH’s National Cancer Institute

Harold Varmus, M.D., who has led the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for nearly five years, has announced today that he will step down from his post, effective March 31. “It has been our great fortune to have Harold at the helm of the NCI,” said NIH Director Francis […]

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