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Harold E. Varmus

Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist and was the 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute, a post to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama, and before that was director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to 1999. 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 is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a Senior Associate at the New York Genome Center.

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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

Amount, Nih, Same, Theme, Trying

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Discovered, Discovery, Passive, Process

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

Companies, Company, Encouraging, Money, More Money, Pharmaceutical Companies

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Beginning, Depth, Fellowship, Test, Tests, Wilson

Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And were trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.

Cancer, Differences, Job, Jobs, Things

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

Atom, Atoms, Computer, Gene, Science, Three

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

Design, Improve, Moving, Practice, Science, Ways

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

Cancer, Characterized, Microscopes, Under, Way

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.

Fundamental, Fundamentals, Looks, Principles, Retreat, Systems

Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

Career, Military, Opposed, School, War

A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior, but it also has a set of changes in the genes or in the molecules that modify gene behavior that allows us to categorize cancers in ways that is very useful in thinking about new ways to control cancer by prevention and treatment.

Appearance, Cancer, Categorize, Genes, Molecules, Thinking

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

Age, Cancer, Rays, Tobacco, Viruses

I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

Academic, Different, Doors, Internist, Medicine, Views

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

Porch, Reading, Summer

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

Important, Medicine, Premise, Quit, Smoking, Transmission