Harold Varmus is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center. He previously was the Director of the National Institutes of Health (1993-1999), president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (2000 – 2010), and Director of the National Cancer Institute (2010 – 2015). In 1989, while on faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, Varmus and J. M. Bishop won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for their work on oncogenes. Varmus has also been awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society. Varmus is a co-founder of the Public Library of Science and is closely involved with numerous global health organizations.
Talks with this Speaker
Conversations in Science with Dan Rather and Harold Varmus: From Oncogenes to PLOS
Dr. Harold Varmus talks to Dan Rather about his journey from literature major to scientist, and from the discovery of oncogenes to creating PLoS. (Talk recorded in April 2019)
Audience:
- General Public
- Student
- Researcher
- Educators
- Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 00:14:50
Leaders in Biomedical Research: Rescuing Biomedical Research in the United States
Bruce Alberts, Marc Kirschner, Shirley Tilghman, Harold Varmus: leaders in biomedical research who have turned their attention to problems confronting the sustainability of basic research. (Talk recorded in August 2014)
Audience:
- Researcher
Duration: 12:05
Public Library of Science: Changing the Way We Publish Scientific Papers
Harold Varmus explains why he believes that the 350 year old print model for publishing scientific papers needs to change in the age of the Internet. (Talk recorded in March 2010)
Audience:
- Student
- Researcher
- Educators
- Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 13:36
How I Became a Scientist: From English Literature Major to Science
Harold Varmus tells us of his circuitous path to becoming a scientist after being an English literature major. (Talk recorded in March 2011)
Duration: 7:21