Mark Kochevar, associate director for administration and finance at the University of Colorado Cancer Center retired on May 31, 2018, after a career of 41 years in cancer research administration. Kochevar began his career as the assistant administrative officer for the Clinical Oncology Program in the NCI’s Division of Cancer Treatment in May 1977.
The Biden administration has left NIH in a weakened state, intensifying politicization of science on Capitol Hill and eroding the bipartisan support the government’s premier biomedical research agency has traditionally enjoyed.