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Harold E. Varmus
Harold Eliot Varmus 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.
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science · American scientist (born 1939) · virologist · university teacher · physician · also Harold E. Varmus, Harold Varmus, Harold E Varmus, Harold Elliot Varmus, H. E. Varmus, H E Varmus
Born 18 December 1939 · Q295691
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2021· 1 entry
Varmus has criticized the high cost of many modern cancer drugs, which create barriers to treatment
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2015· 1 entry
Varmus submitted his resignation to the president, effective March 31, 2015, announcing his intention to return to New York City as the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and as a sen
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2012· 1 entry
Won Glenn T. Seaborg Medal (2012).
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2010· 5 entries
After being named to the post by President Obama
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Shortly before assuming the NCI directorship
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The White House announced that Varmus would become the 14th Director of the NCI, making him the first person to have served as director of an individual NIH Institute after being director of the entire NIH
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MSKCC reported that Varmus had asked the MSKCC Boards of Overseers and Managers "to begin a search for his successor
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Career landmark: director (2010–2015).
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2008· 2 entries
“s quest for the presidency early in 2008 and chaired the campaign”
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And chaired the campaign's Science and Technology Committee
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2007· 1 entry
Congress directed NIH to ensure that all reports of work supported by the NIH appear in PubMed Central within a year after publication
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (2004).
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2001· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded ASCB Public Service Award (1999).
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1993· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1993–1999).
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1989).
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize (1984).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1984).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1982).
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1972· 1 entry
Was promoted to professor in 1979 and became an American Cancer Society Research Professor in 1984
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1970· 2 entries
And his wife, Constance Casey, moved to San Francisco, where he began post-doctoral studies with Michael Bishop at University of California, San Francisco under a fellowship from the California Division of the America
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Began postdoctoral research in Bishop's lab at University of California, San Francisco
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1969· 1 entry
Varmus has been married since 1969 to Constance Louise Casey, a journalist and science writer.
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1962· 1 entry
Before changing his mind once again and applying to medical schools
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1957· 1 entry
Graduated from Freeport High School in Freeport, New York, and enrolled at Amherst College, intending to follow in his father's footsteps as a medical doctor, but eventually graduating with a B
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1939· 2 entries
To Beatrice, a social service worker, and Frank Varmus, a physician, Jewish parents of Eastern European descent, in Oceanside, New York
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Born 1939-12-18.
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