Constantine Stratakis was scientific director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a decade. By Meredith WadmanConstantine Stratakis, the geneticist who directed intramural science at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) for the past decade, withdrew today from a position he was slated to take in June as executive director and chief scientific officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada (RI-MUHC).His withdrawal came 6 days after Science published allegations of gender discrimination by Stratakis from women at the $1.56 billion NICHD, part of the U.S.