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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Molecular Revolution | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Perhaps now she has been defused. Last week researchers announced that they were halting the study 13 months early. Reason: tamoxifen, they've learned, does indeed prevent breast cancer. It's the first drug ever shown to do so. Said Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the NIH, in announcing the results: "This is a big deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware This Breakthrough! | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

More of a big deal than he'd expected, perhaps. Although Varmus and other officials were careful to stress that tamoxifen is a potentially deadly drug with serious risks and unpleasant side effects, that message was all but lost in the initial euphoria. Breast cancer justifiably terrifies American women--so badly that many latched on to the discovery and ignored the downside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware This Breakthrough! | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...years ago, when National Institutes of Health director and Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus was picked to be Harvard's commencement speaker, many members of the Class of 1996 asked why their speaker couldn't be someone better known, like Vaclav Havel, the 1995 speaker, or Al Gore '69, who spoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Here's to You, Mary Robinson | 4/15/1998 | See Source »

Recent speakers include Harold Varmus, directorof the National Institutes of Health, in 1996;Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, in1995; Vice President Al Gore '69, in 1994 andGeneral Colin Powell, former chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Robinson Will Give Address At Graduation | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

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