Margaret Tucker Appointed as DCEG Acting Director

Margaret A. Tucker, M.D., Director of the Human Genetics Program, was tapped by Harold Varmus, M.D., NCI Director, to serve as Acting Director for DCEG while a search for a permanent director is conducted. Stephen J. Chanock, M.D., Chief of the Laboratory of Translational Genomics and Director of the Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory (formerly the Core Genotyping Facility), and Robert N. Hoover, M.D., Sc.D., Director of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, were asked to serve as an executive committee to support Dr. Tucker in her new role.