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Nature 440, 978-979 (20 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440978a; Published online 19 April 2006

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The White House is looking for a new head for the National Cancer Institute. What kind of person does it take to run a $4.8-billion research powerhouse? Nature asked some top cancer researchers for their thoughts.

University of California, San FranciscoIt is much easier to describe the perfect person to be director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) than to find him or her. That person would need to balance the needs, hopes and challenges of state-of-the-art clinical oncologists with those of basic scientists.