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Science 13 November 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5392, pp. 1241 - 1243
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5392.1241
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Pasteur Recruit Resigns in Battle Over New Unit

Michael Balter

PARIS--On 1 November, Joseph McCormick resigned as chief of a new epidemiology and biostatistics unit he had been hired to create at the Pasteur Institute after a tenure committee decided to postpone a decision on granting him permanent status. McCormick's rapid rise and fall appears to be part of a broader debate over the role of epidemiology at the Pasteur, which traditionally has put a heavy emphasis on basic research. It also reflects the political infighting at the Pasteur in the run-up to elections next year for a new director-general to succeed Maxime Schwartz.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)