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He'll Be Under the Desk

Dec 23, 2008

NCI director John Niederhuber would like to stay on at his post, says the Wall Street Journal Health blog. Niederhuber told The Cancer Letter that his resignation letter to be submitted at the end of the Bush administration will say that he is willing to continue on in the Obama administration, even as an intramural scientist or a lower-level administrator. "It's a big place. I can easily hide," Niederhuber tells The Cancer Letter.

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