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Nobel Prize Winner Harold Varmus to Discuss Health, Science and the Developing World12:26PM / Tuesday, October 27, 2009
 | | Dr. Harold Varmus |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - On Monday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m., Dr. Harold Varmus will visit the Williams College campus to deliver the annual Weiss lecture on Medicine and Medical Ethics. Varmus' lecture is titled "Health and Science in the Developing World." The Weiss lecture is sponsored by the Oakley Center for Humanities and Social Sciences.
The event is free and open to the public.
Since Jan. 2000, Varmus has served as president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, guiding the institute in research and development to improve the care of patients with cancer. Varmus also currently serves as co-chair of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Varmus is recognized for his research on cancer genes and on the replication cycles of retroviruses and hepatitis B viruses. In 1989, Varmus and colleague J. Michael Bishop won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the isolation of cellular genes controlling growth and development, which are often mutated in cancer. Varmus' current work involves developing mouse models of human cancer.
Prior to his position with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Varmus served as the director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to 1999 after being appointed to the position by former President Bill Clinton. Before 1993, Varmus conducted research as a member of the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical School.
Varmus has served as advisor to the federal government as well as to pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms and academic institutions. He is involved in initiatives regarding science in developing countries. Varmus has written more than 300 scientific papers, as well as five books, including his 2009 memoir titled "The Art and Politics of Science."
Varmus received his bachelor's degree in English from Amherst College, and attended Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons before beginning is career. |
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