Gov. Doyle may not be headed to Washington as part of the Obama administration, at least one person with a UW-Madison connection will be:
Barack Obama’s transition team has announced the officials who will review personnel and policies at federal agencies for the new Administration, including dozens who will begin visits to examine the work of science agencies this week.
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One reviewer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, parent agency for the National Institutes of Health, is former NIH Director Harold Varmus, who headed Obama’s scientific advisory group during the campaign. That group shaped the candidate’s stances on issues such as a proposed doubling of basic research over 10 years, lifting the limitations on stem cell research, and funding comprehensive sex education. Another is R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, whose support for research using human embryonic stem cells reflects Obama’s position on the controversial work.
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