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I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background. -- Bill Maris
Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money. -- 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
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
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
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
At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards. -- Mort Kondracke
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
The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease. -- Linus Torvalds
While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength. -- Diana DeGette

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