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Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will be the speaker at Harvard's 35th Commencement on June 6, according to yesterday's Harvard University Gazette...
Varmus was a professor of microbiology, biochemistry and biophysics and the American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Virology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) before joining the NIH in 1993, according to a statement released by the NIH Office of Communications...
...Varmus and J. Michael Bishop, M.D., also from UCSF, won the Nobel in physiology of medicine for "demonstrating that cancer genes (oncogenes) can arise from normal cellular genes, called proto-oncogenes," the NIH statement said...
...most recent book, Genes and the Biology of Cancer, intended for a general audience, was co-authored with Robert Weinberg for the Scientific American Library, the NIH statement said
According to the study, a 10 percent cut in NIH funding of universities in 1994 would require an increase in industry outlays by 41 percent, an unlikely event...