Nobel Prize winner Harold E. Varmus, M.D., took the oath of office to become the subject Cancer Institute's (NCI) 14th director. NCI is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that comprise the subject Institutes of Health (NIH). "It's very exciting to have you back," said Health and Human social welfare administrator clerk Kathleen Sebelius during the swearing-in ceremony. "Today is the opening of a new chapter for NCI." Varmus was administrant of NIH from 1993 until the end of 1999. In his opening remarks to a town hall meeting that reintroduced Varmus to the NIH community, NIH boss Francis Collins, M.D...

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