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Title: Harold Varmus (3)
Contributor: UCSF Archives and Special Collections
Date Created and/or Issued: 1990
Publication Information: Digital resource published by the Regents of the University of California
Contributing Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, University Archives
Collection: UCSF History Collection
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Dr. Varmus, laughing. Harold Elliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) 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.[1] 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.
Type: image
Format: Photographic Print
Form/Genre: photograph
Identifier: Varmus laughing
Subject: faculty
medicine
Source: Photograph Collection, Portraits, Varmus

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