Quotes by Harold E. Varmus

About Harold E. Varmus:

Harold Eliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist and the 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute, a post to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama. 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.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

Harold E. Varmus

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

Harold E. Varmus

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

Harold E. Varmus

When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

Harold E. Varmus

When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

Harold E. Varmus

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

Harold E. Varmus

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

Harold E. Varmus

Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're 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.

Harold E. Varmus

I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kin...

Harold E. Varmus

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

Harold E. Varmus

Author Bio

  • NameHarold E. Varmus
  • DescriptionAmerican scientist
  • AliasesHarold Varmus
  • BornDecember 18, 1939
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionVirologist
  • AwardsAlbert Lasker Award For Basic Medical Research; Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine