September 25, 2008

NIH Director to Step Down in October

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By RICHARD MONASTERSKY and JEFFREY BRAINARD

Elias A. Zerhouni, who steered the National Institutes of Health through a tumultuous six years of the agency's budgetary and ethics storms, announced that he will step down in October.

During his tenure, which lasted the typical length for a director of the NIH, Dr. Zerhouni pushed through reforms designed to shake up the somewhat conservative biomedical-research enterprise by encouraging

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