 During his last year as the NIH director , Marston became embroiled in a funding controversy with the Nixon administration , which wanted to place greater funding emphasis on a " war on cancer . " Marston believed that emphasizing one disease at the expense of other medical research was bad policy , and continued to support balanced , comprehensive funding priorities . He eventually resigned from NIH in April 1973 , after nearly five years as director . Afterward , he became a scholar @-@ in @-@ residence at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville , Virginia . The National Academy of Science 's Institute of Medicine named him as its inaugural distinguished fellow . 
