Cancer sucks. Now cancer research at the National Cancer Institute has a new director - Dr. Harold Varmus.Varmus was director of NIH from 1993 until the end of 1999. Varmus was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1989 for studies of the genetic basis of cancer. He most recently served as president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. At his swearing in, Dr. Varmus said, "Suddenly we have an incredible specificity about markers and damaged genes in cancer cells. We have better information technology. We understand the biochemistry of the cell more profoundly. We have a portrait emerging of what is happening, one cancer at a time." Guess he's looking for that multidisciplinary funding that Congressman Dan Lipinski of the the Research and Science Education Subcommittee is talking about - that "New Biology"... exit stage left - http://science.house.gov/publications/hearings_markups_details.aspx?NewsID=2865
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