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Published online 12 December 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1301
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Elias Zerhouni looks back
Former chief of the National Institutes of Health reflects on his years there.
On 31 October, radiologist Elias Zerhouni stepped down after six and a half years as director of the $29-billion US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world's largest funder of biomedical research. Zerhouni's tenure was marked by an increasing emphasis on innovative, multidisciplinary and clinical research as the agency struggled with flatlining budgets and plunging grant-application success rates.
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