White House Expected To Nominate Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus As NCI Director

From The Cancer Letter, March 17, 2010:

Harold Varmus has emerged as the leading candidate for the top job at NCI, sources said.

Varmus, who is in the process of phasing out of his job as president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, was expected to be named to head the institute later this week or by the middle of next week.

Multiple sources in the federal government and outside it confirmed that the announcement appears imminent.

The expected appointment of 70-year-old Varmus represents two firsts: he would be the first Nobel laureate and the first former NIH director to head the cancer institute.

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