February 4, 2000
White House Picks a Neuroscientist as Nominee to Lead the NIH
Gerald D. Fischbach, a leading neuroscientist who for the last 18 months has led the division of the National Institutes of Health that sponsors research on the brain and the nervous system, is the White House's choice to succeed Harold E. Varmus as the director of the N.I.H., administration sources said last week.
The nomination is a crucial one for university officials and researchers, given that the agency, which has a budget of $17.8-billion, is the largest federal sponsor of
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