President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
"Globalizing Science"
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
Dr. Harold Varmus' lifetime of research on cancer genes has changed the course of cancer research and treatment. After receiving the Nobel Prize in 1989, Dr. Varmus was appointed head of the National Institutes of Health, becoming responsible for the largest medical research entity in the world. He spent six years at the NIH, making a strong case to the White House and to Congress for increasing the nation's investment in basic and clinical research. He remained at the NIH until 2000, when he became President and CEO of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
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