{"id":172996,"date":"2010-01-12T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/01\/12\/help-wanted-memorial-sloan-kettering-seeks-new-boss\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T18:11:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T23:11:02","slug":"help-wanted-memorial-sloan-kettering-seeks-new-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/172996","title":{"rendered":"Help Wanted: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Seeks New Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/media\/varmus_C_20100112180200.jpg\" alt=\"Varmus\" align=\"right\"\/>It&#8217;s a tough job market, but if you&#8217;ve won a Nobel Prize and run the NIH, we may have a gig for you.<\/p>\n<p>Harold Varmus, the guy with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mskcc.org\/mskcc\/html\/1780.cfm\" >intimidating CV<\/a> who has run Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for the past decade, has asked Sloan-Kettering&#8217;s board to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mskcc.org\/mskcc\/html\/96362.cfm\" >start looking for his successor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came here with the intention of doing this job for about 10 years, and 10 years have passed,&#8221; Varmus told the Health Blog this afternoon. &#8220;It&#8217;s not retirement; it&#8217;s not disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Varmus is going to keep running a lab and teaching, among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ostp.gov\/cs\/pcast\/members\" >other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Politics-Science-Harold-Varmus\/dp\/0393061280\" >things<\/a>. He also may be on the hook as president for a while longer; he said he&#8217;ll stay on until his replacement has been recruited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, I &#8216;m doing what I did yesterday,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to run Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Varmus in 1999 by Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/J5YI7W2j_S7SL3LmlEQLLmBB3SA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/J5YI7W2j_S7SL3LmlEQLLmBB3SA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/J5YI7W2j_S7SL3LmlEQLLmBB3SA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/J5YI7W2j_S7SL3LmlEQLLmBB3SA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?a=1peCeKxC1wc:Cfh6ns7RXsA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?a=1peCeKxC1wc:Cfh6ns7RXsA:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?i=1peCeKxC1wc:Cfh6ns7RXsA:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?a=1peCeKxC1wc:Cfh6ns7RXsA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?i=1peCeKxC1wc:Cfh6ns7RXsA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?a=1peCeKxC1wc:Cfh6ns7RXsA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?i=1peCeKxC1wc:Cfh6ns7RXsA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?a=1peCeKxC1wc:Cfh6ns7RXsA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/wsj\/health\/feed\/~4\/1peCeKxC1wc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a tough job market, but if you&#8217;ve won a Nobel Prize and run the NIH, we may have a gig for you. Harold Varmus, the guy with the intimidating CV who has run Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for the past decade, has asked Sloan-Kettering&#8217;s board to start looking for his successor. &#8220;I came here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}