Harold E. Varmus
Harold E. Varmus | |
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Varmus in 2009 | |
| 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute | |
| In office 2010–2015 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | John E. Niederhuber |
| Succeeded by | Douglas R. Lowy (Acting) Norman Sharpless |
| 14th Director of the National Institutes of Health | |
| In office November 23, 1993 – December 31, 1999 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Bernadine Healy |
| Succeeded by | Elias Zerhouni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Harold Eliot Varmus December 18, 1939 Oceanside, New York, U.S |
| Spouse |
Constance Louise Casey
(m. 1969) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cancer biology |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral students | Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Tyler Jacks |
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.