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Director of
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/stillman.html
Bruce Stillman
had big shoes to fill when he took over from
Jim
Watson
as director of Cold Spring Harbor in 1994. "I never
thought in a million years when I came here that I would end up
being director of this place," he says. "In retrospect,
it was very typical of Jim to choose someone as young as I was to
succeed him," he adds, noting that its a reflection of
Watsons desire to maintain the youthful dynamism of Cold Spring
Harbors atmosphere.
Stillman, a native of Australia, has been at Cold Spring Harbor
since 1979. He started as a young scientist in an environment that
can make researchers famous early in their careers and garner them
job offers that take them other places. "I came here feeling
terribly inadequate," he says, "because here youre
with some of the worlds best scientists and you realize your
shortcomings."
As director, Stillman has a big hand in shaping the future of Cold
Spring Harborinfluencing what direction the research takes
and hiring scientists whose talents compliment each other. "I
dont have to promote them to do good science, because its
within this culture," he says.
"To do good science just goes along with the place. Of course,
there is [the question of] the necessary funds to do good science
and that's a lot of what I doto try and raise the funds that
supplement the federal grants that we get from taxpayers, which
is how we get the money to do medical research in this country."
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"Its an extremely
interactive place. What I try to do is promote that."
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