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Nature Medicine 6, 8 (2000)
doi:10.1038/71590

Cancer research director steps down after 17 years

Kristine Novak

  1. New York

"1999 will be remembered as the year that Piet Borst stepped down as director of research at The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI) after holding this position for 17 years," incoming director Anton Berns told Nature Medicine.Borst, who left the position at the Dutch mandatory retirement age of 65, will continue teaching at the University of Amsterdam and researching multi-drug resistance as an honorary staff member at the NCI.