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Nature 399, 509 (10 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/21009

Varmus relaunches NIH degree proposal

Meredith Wadman

Harold Varmus, director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), made a second attempt last week to persuade his advisory committee that the institutes should award degrees, and establish a PhD programme in "disease-oriented integrative biology".The committee was first informed of the proposal, under which 15 students would be admitted each year, last December.