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Harold E. Varmus
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American scientist
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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- Works
- 14
Top works
- Winding Your Way Through DNA
- Retroviruses
- Retroviruses
- Art and Politics of Science
- Parity in Financing Mental Health Services
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,270x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,872x
- TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions
· 2013 · cited 11,123x
- Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks
· 2012 · cited 10,908x
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Key facts
- President
- Barack Obama
- Preceded by
- John E. Niederhuber
- Succeeded by
- Douglas R. Lowy (Acting), Norman Sharpless
- Born
- Harold Eliot Varmus , ( 1939-12-18 ) December 18, 1939 (age 86) , Oceanside, New York , U.S
- Spouse
- Constance Louise Casey ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1969 )
- Education
- Amherst College ( BA ) Harvard University ( MA ) Columbia University ( MD )
- Known for
- Retroviral oncogenes PLOS
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1989) Vannevar Bush Award (2001)
- Fields
- Cancer biology
- Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco National Institutes of Health Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center National Cancer Institute Weill Cornell Medicine Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
- Doctoral students
- Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo , Tyler Jacks
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- Official website
- www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/1780.cfm
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Article
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.