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	Harold E. Varmus Biography \| World of Genetics
		Harold Eliot Varmus was born in Oceanside, New York, to Frank and Beatrice (Barasch) Varmus.
		Varmus practiced medicine as an intern and resident at the Presbyterian Hospital of New York City between 1966 and 1968.
		Varmus was nominated by United States President Bill Clinton to the directorship of the National Institutes of Health and was confirmed in November, 1993.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/harold-e-varmus-wog (779 words)

	Columbia News ::: Nobel Laureate and Former NIH Head Harold Varmus Elected to University Trustees
		Varmus, who spent 23 years as a faculty member at UCSF, Bishop and their co-workers demonstrated the cellular origins of the oncogene of a chicken retrovirus.
		Varmus is also widely recognized for his studies of the replication cycles of retroviruses and hepatitis B viruses, the functions of genes implicated in cancer and the development of mouse models for human cancer.
		Varmus obtained his bachelor's degree in English from Amherst College, graduating magna cum laude in 1961, and a master's degree in English literature from Harvard in 1962.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/02/09/haroldVarmus.html (443 words)

	Open and Shut?: Interview with Harold Varmus
		Harold Varmus was born in 1939, on the south shore of Long Island, New York, a product, as he put it in an autobiographical note he wrote years later, of "the early twentieth century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs."
		In part to avoid the draft, Varmus applied for a research training post at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he was accepted for a clinical associate position in the laboratory of molecular biologist Ira Pastan.
		In retrospect, Varmus agrees that he was naïve not to have anticipated the furore.
	poynder.blogspot.com /2006/06/interview-with-harold-varmus.html (4157 words)

	Harold Eliot Varmus Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Varmus joined J. Michael Bishop's laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), as a postdoctoral fellow in 1970 and began his long, continuing study of tumor viruses in collaboration with the staff.
		Varmus chaired the Board of Biology of the National Research Council (NRC), served as adviser to the Congressional Caucus on Biomedical Research, was a member of the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy of Biomedical Societies, and co-chaired the New Delegation for Biomedical Research, which was made up of the major figures in biomedical research.
		He is also head of the Varmus Laboratory at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, where he and his group are investigating biochemical, genetic, and molecular approaches to understanding the normal and oncogenic properties of several genes involved in tumor formation; a professor of cell biology at Cornell University; and a professor at UCSF's Microbiology and Immunology Department.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/harold-eliot-varmus (1003 words)

	Harold Elliot Varmus (1939 - )
		Harold Varmus was born in Oceanside, New York.
		This research, conducted under the supervision of Varmus and Bishop at the University of California at San Francisco in the mid-seventies, has led to great strides in the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of a variety of cancers.
		Varmus and Bishop were celebrated by the Nobel committee in 1989 for the research they had done on oncogenes.
	www.accessexcellence.org /RC/AB/BC/Harold_Elliot_Varmus.html (365 words)

	Harold Varmus
		Harold E. Varmus was born on December 18, 1939, on Long Island.
		By 1972, Varmus had became a regular member of the faculty in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, ascending to the rank of Professor by 1979.
		Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus used an oncogenic retrovirus to identify the growth-controlling oncogenes in normal cells.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/varmus.html (381 words)

	Director of NIH Discusses Biological Research, Funding in Luria Lecture
		Varmus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1989 for research undertaken with Dr. J.
		Varmus obtained an MD from Columbia University and served on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco until he was appointed Director of the National Institutes of Health in 1993.
		Varmus showed the applicability of animal models in cancer research, by turning to the specific case of brain tumors, one of his lab's current research interests.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V118/N8/clecture.8n.html (1238 words)

	Directors - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
		Harold E. Varmus, M.D. Dr. Harold E. Varmus became 14th director of NIH on November 23, 1993.
		Varmus has served as chairman of the board of biology for the National Research Council, an advisor to the Congressional Caucus for Biomedical Research, a member of the joint steering committee for Public Policy of Biomedical Societies, and cochairman of the New Delegation for Biomedical Research, a coalition of leaders in the biomedical community.
		Varmus was a member of the IOM committee that advised the Department of Defense on the use of $210 million allocated by Congress in 1992 for breast cancer research.
	www.nih.gov /about/almanac/historical/directors.htm (4448 words)

	Harold Elliot Varmus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Varmus graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College (B.A.) in 1961, from Harvard University (M.A.) in 1962, and Columbia University, New York City (M.D.), in 1966.
		Varmus remained on the faculty of the University of California, where he became a professor of biochemistry and biophysics in 1982.
		Varmus and Bishop found that, under certain circumstances, normal genes in healthy cells of the body can cause cancer; these genes are termed oncogenes.
	www.nobel-winners.com /Medicine/harold_elliot_varmus.html (263 words)

	Harold E. Varmus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harold Varmus biography from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
		Harold Varmus profile from the Public Library of Science
		Harold Varmus debates the Open Access journal model
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harold_E._Varmus (197 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Harold E. Varmus: Nobel Prize Catapults Researcher into Public Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While in Cambridge, Varmus worked in the cancer research laboratory of Robert Weindruck at the Whitehead Institute, an independent research laboratory that is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		In October 1999, Varmus, who is now 61, announced he would leave NIH to become president and chief executive of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, one of the nation's largest cancer hospitals.
		Varmus declined to comment for this story, saying that he does not want to confuse people at Sloan-Kettering to whom he has made commitments.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=102923 (873 words)

	GOVERNMENT & POLICY
		Varmus, of course, is not shy about giving as good as he gets, and that's just what he did late last month at two forums.
		On June 30, Varmus, along with representatives from three publishing organizations, talked to science writers at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md. Although the NAS meeting was closed to the media, sources present at both meetings told CandEN that Varmus gave virtually the same presentation.
		On June 21, Varmus responded on the web to the most frequent questions and criticisms by restating some of the fuzzier aspects of the original proposal; the June 21 document is longer than the original proposal.
	pubs.acs.org /hotartcl/cenear/990719/7729gov1.html (1382 words)

	Harold Varmus, Lewis Branscomb are honored with the Vannevar Bush Award
		Varmus is currently president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, the nation's oldest and largest private institution for cancer research.
		Harold has opened many doors in education and has provided tremendous leadership to the nation's scientific community.
		As a professor of microbiology, Varmus shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1989 with Professor J. Michael Bishop, his then colleague at the University of California, San Francisco, for their work in retroviruses that led to an understanding of the genetic basis for cancer.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-05/NSF-HVLB-0805101.php (970 words)

	1999 CSHL Highlights - Varmus Birthday Celebration
		On December 12, 74 scientists gathered at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to celebrate the 60th birthday of Harold E. Varmus, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health.
		He has been coming to meetings at CSHL for over a quarter century and is well known for his research accomplishments-including the discovery of cellular oncogenes with Mike Bishop that garnered them a Noble prize-as well as for his extraordinary leadership.
		As director of the NIH, Harold stressed the importance of biomedical research for the improvement of the human condition, and oversaw a dramatic increase in public support of biomedical science.
	www.cshl.edu /AnnualReport1999/rh18.html (134 words)

	Public Library of Science: Board of Directors
		Harold Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and co-recipient of a Nobel prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, currently serves as the president and chief executive officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
		In 1993, Varmus was named by President Bill Clinton to serve as the director of the NIH, a position he held until his appointment as CEO of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
		Varmus is married to Constance Casey, a journalist and horticulturist; their two sons, Jacob and Christopher, also live in New York City.
	www.plos.org /about/board.html (2536 words)

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		Biography: Before being sworn in as the Director of the NIH, Dr. Varmus was a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Biochemistry and Biophysics, and the American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Virology at the University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF), where he studied retroviruses and the genetic basis of cancer for over 20 years.
		Varmus is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association of Physicians.
		Varmus left NIH at the beginning of this year to accept a job as the President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
	rex.nci.nih.gov /RESEARCH/basic/varmus/hevbio.html (225 words)

	CancerNetwork: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		WASHINGTON--An announcement by NIH director Harold E. Varmus, MD, of a plan to form a national pain research consortium came as a complete, but pleasant surprise to the American Pain Society, Martin Grabois, MD, president of the Society, said in an interview with Oncology News International.
		Varmus said that the consortium would serve as a centralized clearinghouse for projects and information on pain, help to publicize the aims and accomplishments of pain specialists, and foster collaboration and dialogue among scientists, pain societies, advocacy groups, and other members of the pain community.
		Varmus described in his talk (see table above), he said, "I think that would go a long way toward upgrading pain research conducted at NIH or with NIH support." However, he noted that Dr. Varmus included no time frame for the formation of the consortium.
	www.cancernetwork.com /journals/oncnews/n9701q.htm (361 words)

	Sloan-Kettering - President's Pages: Biography
		Harold Varmus, former Director of the National Institutes of Health and co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City since January 2000.
		Varmus is also widely recognized for his studies of the replication cycles of retroviruses and hepatitis B viruses, the functions of genes implicated in cancer, and the development of mouse models of human cancer (the focus of much of the current work in his laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center).
		Varmus has authored over 300 scientific papers and four books, including an introduction to the genetic basis of cancer for a general audience, and he has been an advisor to the Federal government, pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, and many academic institutions.
	www.mskcc.org /mskcc/html/1780.cfm (646 words)

	The Lasker Foundation \| 1982 Winners
		For his fundamental and far-reaching discoveries concerning the nature of oncogenes and their profound importance and for determining that closely related genes occur not only throughout the animal kingdom, but also within the genome of cancer-causing retroviruses in humans.
		In a long and particularly close scientific collaboration with Dr. Varmus, Dr. Bishop showed beyond question that a DNA sequence in the avian sarcoma virus was virtually identical to a sequence in normal human DNA.
		By comparing the sequence now known at the "src" gene, as it occurs in the DNA of various species, Dr. Varmus and Dr. Bishop showed that the gene is conserved from species to species with other minor changes, indicating that its role must be important.
	www.laskerfoundation.org /awards/library/1982b_cit.shtml (922 words)

	Varmus, Harold -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Varmus graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College (B.A.) in 1961, from Harvard University (M.A.) in 1962, and Columbia University, New York City (M.D.), in 1966.
		American virologist and co-winner (with Harold Varmus) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1989 for achievements in clarifying the origins of cancer.
		U.S. flier Harold Charles Gatty was born in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9074858?tocId=9074858 (702 words)

	Opening Access to Science \| The Coming Revolution in the Publication of Scientific Papers
		Harold Varmus first became acquainted with open access publishing in January 1999, when he met with geneticist Pat Brown of Stanford University, at a San Francisco coffee house.
		Brown, who collaborated with the Varmus Lab as a trainee and has remained a close colleague, told Varmus about a Web site (now called arXiv.org) where physicists could post prepublished versions of their papers for review.
		Frustrated with the slow pace at which publishers were voluntarily depositing full-text articles, however, Varmus, Brown, and Michael Eisen of the University of California at Berkeley circulated a petition: signees would refuse to submit articles or to serve as editors or reviewers for any journal that did not join PubMed Central by September 2001.
	www.nyas.org /ebriefreps/main.asp?intSubSectionID=583 (654 words)

	Stassen, Harold E. -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Although he held several prominent political positions during his lifetime, Harold E. Stassen is probably most associated with the one he never held—the United States presidency.
		Edgerton, Harold E. American electrical engineer and photographer who was noted for creating high-speed photography techniques that he applied to scientific uses.
		Stassen, Harold E. Although he held several prominent political positions during his lifetime, Harold E. Stassen is probably most associated with the one he never held—the United States presidency.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9337265 (735 words)

	[P&S Journal:Fall:97] Commencement 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		andS alumnus Harold E. Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, gave the address in May when 141 students received medical degrees and 45 received Ph.D. degrees at a ceremony in the CPMC Garden.
		Varmus, a 1966 graduate of PandS, is the first Nobel Laureate to lead NIH.
		Harold and Golden Lamport Research Award in basic sciences was given to Dr.
	cpmcnet.columbia.edu /news/journal/journal-o/archives/jour_v17n03_0016.html (209 words)

	Harold Varmus, Introduction
		Introduction by Harold Varmus, MD Symposium Chair and Session host Harold E. Varmus, MD, is professor of microbiology and of biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.
		In 1989 Varmus and his UCSF colleague, J. Michael Bishop, were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their studies of cancer-causing genes.
		I'm Harold Varmus, Chairman of the DNA Symposium organizing committee.
	www.accessexcellence.org /RC/CC/varmusintro.html (875 words)

	M2 Presswire: Harold Varmus, Lewis Branscomb are honored with the Vannevar Bush Award.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		M2 Presswire: Harold Varmus, Lewis Branscomb are honored with the Vannevar Bush Award.@ HighBeam Research
		Harold Varmus, Lewis Branscomb are honored with the Vannevar Bush Award.
		Harold E. Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health and a Nobel prize holder for contributions to understanding the mechanisms of cancer, and Lewis M. Branscomb, a physicist, former NSB chair and one of the most compelling voices in science...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:74359733&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (188 words)

	Eberly College of Science News - Nobel Laureate to Give Marker Lectures in Genetic Engineering
		Varmus also is recognized widely for his studies of the replication cycles of retroviruses and hepatitis B viruses, the functions of genes implicated in cancer, and the development of mouse models for human cancer, which is the focus of much of the current work in his laboratory.
		In 1993, Varmus was named by President Clinton to serve as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a position he held until the end of 1999.
		A native of Freeport, Long Island, Varmus earned a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in English literature at Amherst College in 1961 and a master's degree in English at Harvard University in 1962.
	www.science.psu.edu /alert/MarkerGen3-2000.htm (607 words)

	Varmus, Tsongas speak at Whitehead dedication - MIT News Office
		The new wing of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research was formally dedicated this week at a ceremony that featured NIH Director and Nobel laureate Harold E. Varmus and former Senator Paul E. Tsongas, chairman of the board for Whitehead.
		In his keynote address, Dr. Varmus outlined the reasons behind the Whitehead's success: "the strong linkage to MIT, a place that offers not only prestigious and wonderful students, but access to many disciplines-computer science, mathematics, engineering, chemistry, and physics-that are increasingly important for biomedical research.
		Among the major donors are The Ira W. DeCamp Fund, The W.M. Keck Foundation, The Mary Woodard Lasker Charitable Trust, The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation, and the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1996/varmus-1002.html (755 words)

	Ford Harold E - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ford Harold E - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ford, Harold E. Ford, Harold E., born in 1945, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee (1975-1997).
		Varmus, Harold Eliot, born in 1939, virologist, cancer researcher, and Nobel Prize winner, born in Oceanside, New York.
	encarta.msn.com /Ford_Harold_E.html (108 words)

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