NEW YORK DENTIST Given Top Post at NIH
LAWRENCE A. TABAK, D.D.S., Ph.D., former associate dean at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, was named acting director of the National Institutes of Health to replace retiring director Francis Collins. Dr. Tabak has been with the NIH since 2000, including 10 years as director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. His most recent position was principal deputy director and deputy ethics counselor. Dr. Tabak is a Brooklyn native who got his undergraduate degree from City College of New York, his D.D.S. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo. He was the senior associate dean for research and professor of dentistry, biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Rochester from 1986 to 2000. z Lawrence Tabak
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