Harold E. Varmus
Also known as Harold Varmus, Harold E Varmus, Harold Elliot Varmus, H. E. Varmus, H E Varmus, H. Varmus, H Varmus, Varmus
American scientist
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Harold E. Varmus is an American scientist. His scientific work contributes to the advancement of knowledge within the American scientific community.
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- Winding Your Way Through DNA
- Retroviruses
- Retroviruses
- Art and Politics of Science
- Parity in Financing Mental Health Services
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- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,270x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
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Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center.
He was a co-recipient (along with J. Michael Bishop) of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. He was also the director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to 1999 and the 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute from 2010 to 2015, a post to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama.
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1939 birthsAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesAmherst College alumniClinton administration personnelColumbia University peopleColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumniDirectors of the National Cancer InstituteDirectors of the National Institutes of HealthForeign members of the Royal SocietyHarvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni