Varmus, Harold Elliot

Neeraja Sankaran, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002935

1939– American virologist and 14th Director of the National Institutes of Health, whose discoveries helped establish the mechanisms underlying the development of viral-induced tumours.

Keywords: oncogenes; retroviruses; proto-oncogenes; retroviral and cellular oncogenes

 Further Reading
    book Varmus H and Weinberg RA (1993) Genes and the Biology of Cancer. New York: Scientific American Library.
    book Fallows J (1999) "The political scientist". The New Yorker, June 7 (this profile of Varmus may also be accessed via the internet at [http://www.nih.gov/about/director/fallows_article]).

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Sankaran, Neeraja(Apr 2001) Varmus, Harold Elliot. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002935]