Stanley B Prusiner My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated. – Stanley B Prusiner
Ralph Regula My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately. – Ralph Regula
Ike Skelton The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. – Ike Skelton
Harold E Varmus Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money. – Harold E Varmus
Harold E Varmus When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes. – Harold E Varmus
Harold E Varmus A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty. – Harold E Varmus
Elizabeth Esty There’s no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health. – Elizabeth Esty
Clay Travis The ‘experts’ in science and medicine at the CDC and the NIH made a determination about what the COVID science was and then attempted to destroy anyone who challenged that consensus opinion by deploying their assets in the mainstream media. – Clay Travis
Bill Maris I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background. – Bill Maris
