File:National_Cancer_Institute_director_Harold_E._Varmus_(3)_(cropped).jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Harold E. Varmus
Sign in to saveAlso known as Harold Varmus, Harold E Varmus, Harold Elliot Varmus, H. E. Varmus, H E Varmus, H. Varmus, H Varmus, Varmus
American scientist
Harold E. Varmus is an American scientist. His scientific work contributes to the advancement of knowledge within the American scientific community.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Winding Your Way Through DNA
- Retroviruses
- Retroviruses
- Art and Politics of Science
- Parity in Financing Mental Health Services
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1989
“for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”
Shared · 1/2 portion
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oceanside
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- J. Michael Bishop
- Field of work
- virology
- Official website
- www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/1780.cfm
- Image
- HEVarmus.jpg
- Residence
- New York City
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Harold E. Varmus
- date of birth
- 1939-12-18
- Erdős number
- 4
- interested in
- virology
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
~15 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harold E. Varmus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.