Harold E. Varmus
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1989for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenesTogether with: J. Michael Bishop
- Citizenship
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United States
- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 12/18/1939
- place of birth
- Oceanside
- Age
- 86 years
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- position held
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- director
- start time: 11/23/1993
- end time: 12/31/1999
- director
- end time: 2015
- start time: 2010
- Plan S Ambassador
- director
- employer
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- University of California, San Francisco
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- United States National Institutes of Health
- Cornell University
- educated at
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- Freeport High School
- Amherst College
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Columbia University
- Harvard University
- doctoral student
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- Joshua M Kaplan
- member of
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- Royal Society of London
- European Molecular Biology Organization
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- field of work
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- virology
- occupation
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- university teacher
- virologist
- physician