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Science 8 December 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5498, p. 1871
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5498.1871c
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Last January, some observers dubbed neuroscientist Gerald Fischbach "director-to-be" of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), after Harold Varmus quit the post for a prestigious job in New York City. But by spring, the White House had decided that election-year politics would sink the planned promotion of Fischbach, who had run the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for 2 years.

Now, Fischbach is also headed to the Big Apple. Columbia University last week appointed him to its top medical post. As vice president for health and medical sciences, he will command an $815 million budget and be dean of the faculties of health and medicine. His wife, Ruth Fischbach, is leaving a biomedical ethics position at NIH to become a professor of bioethics in psychiatry at nearby Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

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