Norman “Ned” Sharpless Oct. 17 was sworn in as the 15th NCI director, succeeding Harold Varmus, who stepped down as director in March 2015, and Douglas Lowy, who has served as acting director since that time.
The NCI Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) has published a cluster of papers intended to advance the framework of spatial omics, the science of profiling morphological and molecular features of human cancers in two and three dimensions.
