October 15, 1999

Varmus Will Leave NIH to Head Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

By PAULETTE WALKER CAMPBELL and PATRICK HEALY

Ending months of speculation, Harold E. Varmus said last week that he would step down as director of the National Institutes of Health at the end of the year to become president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York.

"It's time to change what I'm doing," he said in an interview following the announcement. "I have enjoyed the policy discussions and overseeing the budget, but I didn't have the sense of really managing a research program. I want to do that, and I

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