Varmus wants tighter NIH rules

Harold Varmus.

The Yale Graduate Student Research Symposium (GSRS) is an annual event organized solely by graduate students. The GSRS is an open forum for sharing and learning about the research being conducted by the next generation of scientists today's graduate students. This year, on November 1, 2002, some 300 Yale researchers from graduate students to distinguished faculty gathered in the Levitson Audito...

Recombinant DNA: NIH rules broken in insulin gene project.

Varmus proposes guidelines for stem cell research.

After almost a year of discussion and debate, Harold Varmus, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has proposed guidelines under which federally funded scientists can pursue research using human pluripotent stem cells. The issue has been politically charged. Conservative members of Congress have gone on record against the use of the cell cultures because they believe it viola...

Harold Varmus: Still behaving like a scientist

In January, Harold Varmus will begin the next stage in an unusual career. He’s gone from English literature to medicine to bench science to Washington science bureaucrat, and now he becomes the well-paid (some would say extremely well-paid) president of a private, not-for-profit treatment and research facility, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He’s succeeded in everything...

He Wants to Know

Sir,?I wonder whether any of your readers can answer the following questions: Has the Society of Medical Officers of Health taken any steps to bring to the notice of the Corporations of Manchester and Liverpool the salaries which should be offered for the positions shortly to become vacant? What will happen to County Nursing Associations when their probationers realise that a halftrained nurse ...