Harold Varmus
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Harold Varmus | |
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| Born | Harold Eliot Varmus 18 December 1939 (aged 86) |
| Alma mater | Amherst College Harvard University Columbia University |
| Known for | Retroviral oncogenes; PLOS |
| Awards | 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
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| Fields | Cell biology |
Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American scientist. He won a Nobel Prize. He is the 14th and current Director of the National Cancer Institute. He was appointed to that post he was appointed to by President Barack Obama.[1]
Varmus was a co-recipient, with J. Michael Bishop, of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the origin of retroviral oncogenes.[2] Varmus described the work in his Nobel lecture.[3]
He also serves as one of three co-Chairs of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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Harold Varmusi retired of director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 2015. This photograph shows the Clinical Center (Building 10) in the background.
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References
- ↑ President Obama to appoint Harold E. Varmus M.D. to lead National Cancer Institute: [1] Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989Official Nobel Prize Award Site. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ↑ Retroviruses and oncogenes I. Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1989. nobelprize.org