The Nation - News from Aug. 12, 1988
Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. will resign Sept. 1 as director of the National Cancer Institute to become chief physician at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. DeVita, 53, has been NCI director since 1975 and presided over an unprecedented expansion in the U.S. cancer-research effort. A chemotherapy expert, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in American medical research.
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