Harold E. Varmus
Academic
1939 –
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Who is Harold E. Varmus?
Harold Eliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist and the 14th and current Director of the National Cancer Institute, a post he was appointed to by President Barack Obama. He was a co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
He also serves as one of three co-Chairs of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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- Born
- Dec 18, 1939
Oceanside - Also known as
- Harold Varmus
- Harold Elliot Varmus
- Parents
- Spouses
- Constance Louise Casey
(1969 - )
- Constance Louise Casey
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Columbia University
- Amherst College
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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on July 23, 2013
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