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|OrganizationType=Independent Agencies (Sub-organization)
|OrganizationType=Independent Agencies (Sub-organization)
|Mission=To lead, conduct, and support cancer research across the nation to advance scientific knowledge and help all people live longer, healthier lives. NCI aims to reduce the burden of cancer through research in prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
|Mission=To lead, conduct, and support cancer research across the nation to advance scientific knowledge and help all people live longer, healthier lives. NCI aims to reduce the burden of cancer through research in prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
|ParentOrganization=National Institutes of Health (NIH)
|ParentOrganization=National Institutes of Health
|TopOrganization=Department of Health and Human Services
|CreationLegislation=National Cancer Institute Act of 1937
|CreationLegislation=National Cancer Institute Act of 1937
|Budget=$6.9 billion (FY 2023)
|Budget=$6.9 billion (FY 2023)
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| [[File:AVonEchenbach2.jpg|100px]] || [[Andrew C. von Eschenbach]] || January 22, 2002 – June 10, 2006 || 12th Director, served from 2001 to 2006 before transitioning to a role as [[Commissioner of Food and Drugs]].<ref name="congressional_record_confirmation">{{cite journal | author = U.S. Congress |date=7 December 2006 | title = Executive Session | journal = Congressional Record | volume = 152 | issue = 134 | pages = S11404–29, S11447–51 | url = http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?dbname=2006_record&page=S11404&position=all | access-date = 2006-12-12}}</ref><ref name="confirmation_vote">{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00274|title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress – 2nd Session|website=www.senate.gov}}</ref>
| [[File:AVonEchenbach2.jpg|100px]] || [[Andrew C. von Eschenbach]] || January 22, 2002 – June 10, 2006 || 12th Director, served from 2001 to 2006 before transitioning to a role as [[Commissioner of Food and Drugs]].<ref name="congressional_record_confirmation">{{cite journal | author = U.S. Congress |date=7 December 2006 | title = Executive Session | journal = Congressional Record | volume = 152 | issue = 134 | pages = S11404–29, S11447–51 | url = http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?dbname=2006_record&page=S11404&position=all | access-date = 2006-12-12}}</ref><ref name="confirmation_vote">{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00274|title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress – 2nd Session|website=www.senate.gov}}</ref>
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| [[File:Jniederhuber-photo.jpg|100px]] || [[John E. Niederhuber]] || September 15, 2006 – July 12, 2010 || 13th Director of the NCI, was nominated by President [[George W. Bush]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investors.emergentbiosolutions.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=202582&p=irol-govBio&ID=203684 |title=Emergent Biosolutions – Board of Directors bio |access-date=2013-12-06}}</ref>
| [[File:Jniederhuber-photo.jpg|100px]] || [[John E. Niederhuber]] || September 15, 2006 – July 12, 2010 || 13th Director of the NCI, was nominated by President George W. Bush.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investors.emergentbiosolutions.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=202582&p=irol-govBio&ID=203684 |title=Emergent Biosolutions – Board of Directors bio |access-date=2013-12-06}}</ref>
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| [[File:National Cancer Institute director Harold E. Varmus (3) (cropped).jpg|100px]] || [[Harold Varmus]] || July 12, 2010 – March 31, 2015 || Co-winner of the [[Nobel Prize]] for studies of the genetic basis of cancer.<ref name="Varmus">{{cite web |url=http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/director/messages/harold-varmus-resignation |title=Director's Page – National Cancer Institute (Archive) |publisher=Cancer.gov |access-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/5574/20150331220844/http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/director/messages/harold-varmus-resignation |archive-date=2015-03-31 }}</ref> He was director of the [[National Institutes of Health]] from 1993 to 1999.
| [[File:National Cancer Institute director Harold E. Varmus (3) (cropped).jpg|100px]] || [[Harold Varmus]] || July 12, 2010 – March 31, 2015 || Co-winner of the [[Nobel Prize]] for studies of the genetic basis of cancer.<ref name="Varmus">{{cite web |url=http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/director/messages/harold-varmus-resignation |title=Director's Page – National Cancer Institute (Archive) |publisher=Cancer.gov |access-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/5574/20150331220844/http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/director/messages/harold-varmus-resignation |archive-date=2015-03-31 }}</ref> He was director of the [[National Institutes of Health]] from 1993 to 1999.