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Nature 441, 17-19 (4 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441017a; Published online 3 May 2006
nature jobs
Structural & Computational Biology
- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
- Kolkata India
Laboratory Head
- Bayer Schering Pharma AG Berlin
- Berlin 13353 Germany
Biomedical research: Facing the opposition
Erika Check1
- Erika Check is Nature's biomedical correspondent. With additional reporting by Colin Macilwain.
Abstract
Elias Zerhouni has one of the biggest jobs in biomedical research — running the massive US National Institutes of Health. But is he leading the agency up the right path? Erika Check examines his tenure.
In a related News Feature this week, Jacqueline Ruttimann investigates whether the respected US National Institutes of Health meets the needs of young postdoc researchers.On 6 April, Elias Zerhouni spent the morning on Capitol Hill, telling Congress to invest more money in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — for the good of the country and its research enterprise.
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