Harold Varmus
MD
Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine
👥Biography 个人简介
Harold Varmus, with J. Michael Bishop, discovered that cancer-causing oncogenes in retroviruses have normal cellular counterparts (proto-oncogenes) that become activated by mutation, overexpression, or translocation — a unifying principle of cancer biology for which they shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This discovery established that cancer is fundamentally a disease of altered normal genes and laid the groundwork for the entire field of oncogene-targeted therapy. He subsequently served as Director of the NIH and NCI, shaping US cancer research policy.
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Last updated: 2026-04-01 | All information from publicly available academic sources
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