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Nature Medicine 12, 1334 (1 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/nm1206-1334b;

New chief brings welcome change to US cancer agency

Tinker Ready

John Niederhuber, the new director of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), says politics has no role at the institute. That may be the case now, but some staff and cancer activists saw Niederhuber's predecessor—Bush family friend and physician Andrew von Eschenbach—as a classic political appointee.

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