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

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.

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

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

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

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

Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And were trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.