NIH's Special Pooled Fund Includes NCI 'Donation' but No NCI Projects

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Oncology NEWS InternationalOncology NEWS International Vol 4 No 2
Volume 4
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BETHESDA, Md--Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, has pooled $13.4 million from the budgets of all of the institutes to fund projects at five of them.

BETHESDA, Md--Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutesof Health, has pooled $13.4 million from the budgets of all ofthe institutes to fund projects at five of them.

The National Cancer Institute's "donated" share was$2.6 million. This money has to be considered lost because theNCI will not receive any money from the pooled funds

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