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

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.

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.

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

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

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

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.