title: Basic science and the NIH.
abstract: The following is an edited version of the Keynote Speech delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology by Harold Varmus, Director of the National Institutes of Health. The address, entitled Basic Science and the NIH, was given at the opening of the meeting in New Orleans on December 11, 1993. It was Varmus' first public policy talk as NIH Director.
authors.affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Varmus
mesh_terms: D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.) / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D011057:Politics; D012106:Research; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014481:United States