Word: varmus
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Three years ago, Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, was announced as the principal speaker at Harvard's 345th Commencement. After asking "Harold who?," spoiled Harvard students, accustomed to being addressed by heads of state and Nobel laureates, questioned the selection of a bio medical researcher as the featured guest at their graduation. Poor Dr. Varmus was ridiculed in campus publications; his likeness even made a regular appearance in a student comic strip in this newspaper...
...Recent Commencement speakers include Mary Robinson, U.N High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, and Vice President Al Gore...
Recent Commencement speakers include MaryRobinson, U.N High Commissioner for Human Rightsand former President of Ireland, U.S. Secretary ofState Madeleine K. Albright, Harold Varmus,director of the National Institutes of Health,Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, andVice President Al Gore...
...stem cells can evidently survive indefinitely. The researchers have also coaxed them to take the next step and differentiate into neural, gut, muscle and bone cells. "It's an important first step," says developmental biologist James Thomson, who led the Wisconsin team. National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus pronounced the potential applications of the Wisconsin work "tremendous...
...cancer. So disrupting them could cause harm. "Whether the therapy is going to be a major advance, a modest improvement or a disappointment is not clear," says Dr. J. Michael Bishop, molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who shared a 1989 Nobel Prize with Dr. Harold Varmus for their pioneering work on oncogenes. But Bishop is impressed that the field is moving so swiftly, and most researchers are convinced that they are at least on the right track. Says Joseph Schlessinger, a New York University scientist who helped develop SU101: "Early in the next millennium, we will...