Looks like the "Decade of the Brain" is over!
From kaisernetwork.org Daily Reports.
Four Directors of NIH 'Brain-Related' Institutes Have Left Posts in Past
Year
"Four directors of NIH institutes that direct "much" federal research
into "behavioral and neurological problems" have quit in the last year,
the Washington Post reports. Steve Hyman, director of the National
Institute of Mental Health, resigned on Oct. 29 to become the provost of
Harvard University. Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on
Drug Abuse, announced last week he will resign to become the head of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. The director of the
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Enoch Gordis, retired
"some weeks ago." Last December, Gerald Fischbach left his position as
director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
for Columbia University. According to Hyman and Leshner, the succession
of departures is "coincidental." The Post reports that acting directors
will step into the positions, but "it could take months" to find
full-time replacements. The NIH itself has been without a
director for nearly two years, since Harold Varmus left in December 1999
(Vedantam, Washington Post, 10/30)."
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