Harold Varmus

Harold Varmus reflects on the life of John Edward Porter, a House appropriator—and his friend
Porter helped orchestrate the doubling of the NIH budget between 1998 and 2003

On June 3, two days after his 87th birthday, John Edward Porter, who represented the 10th Congressional District of Illinois as a Republican for over twenty years, died of pneumonia in a hospital in Northern Virginia.

June 24, 2022

Vol.48 No.25

By Harold Varmus

Harold Varmus reflects on the life of John Edward Porter, a House appropriator—and his friend
Porter helped orchestrate the doubling of the NIH budget between 1998 and 2003

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Harold Varmus reflects on the life of John Edward Porter, a House appropriator—and his friendPorter helped orchestrate the doubling of the NIH budget between 1998 and 2003

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Harold Varmus reflects on the life of John Edward Porter, a House appropriator—and his friend
Porter helped orchestrate the doubling of the NIH budget between 1998 and 2003