Harold E. Varmus

Harold E. Varmus
Varmus in 2009
14th Director of the National Cancer Institute
In office 2010–2015
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	John E. Niederhuber
Succeeded by	Douglas R. Lowy (Acting) Norman Sharpless
14th Director of the National Institutes of Health
In office November 23, 1993 – December 31, 1999
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Bernadine Healy
Succeeded by	Elias Zerhouni
Personal details
Born	Harold Eliot Varmus (1939-12-18) December 18, 1939 (age 84) Oceanside, New York, US
Spouse	Constance Louise Casey ​ ​ (m. 1969)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Amherst College (BA) Harvard University (MA) Columbia University (MD)
Known for	Retroviral oncogenes PLOS
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1989) Vannevar Bush Award (2001)
Scientific career
Fields	Cancer biology
Institutions	University of California, San Francisco National Institutes of Health Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center National Cancer Institute Weill Cornell Medicine Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Doctoral students	Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo[1] Tyler Jacks[2]

Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center.

He was a co-recipient (along with J. Michael Bishop) of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. He was also the director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to 1999 and the 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute from 2010 to 2015, a post to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama.^[3][4]