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Science Policy in the Next Forty Years
Science Policy in the Next Forty Years
Contributor(s):
Varmus, Harold National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of the Director
In this talk, given at the Jackson Lab Symposium "The Genetics Revolution in the New Millennium: Science, Practice, and Policy," Varmus talked about the growing trend of institute and center proliferation at NIH, and the ways in which such a "confederacy" of smaller and smaller parts might hamper the abilities of the whole. [Five of the PowerPoint slides are added to this transcript.]
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