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Leading a matrix cancer center: Extensive responsibility, modest influence, little authority

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As is true in so many fields, medicine and biomedical research have experienced a huge transition over recent decades from self-sufficiency to productive interdependence. 

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George J. Weiner, MD
Director emeritus, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center; CE Block Chair of Cancer Research, Professor of internal medicine, Professor of pharmaceutical sciences and experimental therapeutics, The University of Iowa
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