Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and
current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its
systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).