Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.