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President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Chairman, Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Nobel Prize winner for discovery of cancer genes; Former director of NIH; advisor to President Obama and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Harold Varmus is co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. He has also been designated as one of the co-chairs of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the Obama administration. Beginning during his tenure as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under President Bill Clinton, Dr. Varmus has championed greater public access to scientific papers via the Internet and supported efforts to expand science and health care in developing countries.
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Dr. Harold Varmus chairs the GEOFFREY BEENE CANCER RESEARCH CENTER at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Established in 2006, the Center is dedicated to making revolutionary discoveries about how cancer works at the cellular level and using them for new approaches to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. $106 million has been donated by GEOFFREY BEENE to fund research projects, professorships, training stipends, and symposia.
RELATED LINKS:
GEOFFREY BEENE CANCER RESEARCH CENTER at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, President's Pages, Selected Speeches and Testimony
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