The Nation - News from April 21, 1989
James B. Wyngaarden, who has been director of the National Institutes of Health since 1982, called an unusual meeting of institute directors and senior officials to tell them that he will resign at the beginning of July, the Washington Post reported. The NIH, the world’s largest biomedical research establishment, will dispense more than $6.7 billion in funds during the 1990 fiscal year. The departure of Wyngaarden, 64, has been rumored for months. Wyngaarden came to the NIH from Duke University Medical School, where he was chairman of the department of medicine.
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