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Harold Varmus, former Director of the National Institutes of Health and co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City since January 2000.
Dr. Varmus received the Nobel Prize (jointly with Michael Bishop, his former colleague at the University of California, San Francisco) for elucidating the molecular and genetic mechanisms that underlie the transformation of a normal cell to a cancerous one. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. In addition to authoring hundreds of scientific papers and four books on the genetic basis of cancer, including an introduction to the subject for a general audience, Dr Varmus has been an advisor to the World Health Organization, the federal government, pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms and many academic institutions. He is also a founder of the Public Library of Science, a publisher dedicated to making the scientific literature freely available to everyone via the internet.
Harold Varmus majored in English literature at Amherst College, earned a master’s degree in English at Harvard University, and graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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