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

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

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

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.

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

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.