The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989
Awarded on: 1989-10-09
"for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"
Affiliations:
- University of California School of Medicine – San Francisco, CA, USA
Harold E. Varmus
Born: 1939-12-18 in Oceanside, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American scientist (born 1939)
Biography
Harold Eliot Varmus 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.