Elias Zerhouni, the diagnostic radiologist who shook up the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the goal of making it more creative, clinical and cross-disciplinary, announced Wednesday that he would resign as agency director by...

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National Institutes of Health Director Elias Zerhouni announced today that he will step down by the end of October, after a 6.5-year tenure during which he dealt with a flat budget and ethics controversies while working to break down...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Elias Zerhouni told reporters that he’s leaving his job as director of the National Institutes of Health as part of “the natural cycle of tenures for this position,” Science reports. Translation:...
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After more than six years heading the federal behemoth, the radiologist will be leaving at the end of October as part of what he called “the natural cycle of tenures for this positions,” during a teleconference with journalists. “It’s with...