Harold E. Varmus - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	18-December-1939
Place of Birth	Oceanside (Nassau County, New York)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Harold Varmus, Harold Elliot Varmus
Profession	Scientist
Harold Eliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist and the 14th and current Director of the National Cancer Institute, a post he was appointed to by President Barack Obama. He was a co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. He also serves as one of three co-Chairs of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Awards by Harold E. Varmus

Check all the awards nominated and won by Harold E. Varmus.

2001

National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences	(For his co-discovery of the cellular origins of retroviral oncogenes, which heralded a new era in the control of human cancer and for reinvigorating the nation's medical research enterprise.)

1989

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	(for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes)

1984

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(For research on viral and cellular oncogenes that extends our understanding of the molecular basis of human cancer.)

1982

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research	(For his creative and successful pursuit toward the identification of the cellular oncogenes and their control. )

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