"There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century - the atom, the computer and the gene." - Harold Varmus, NIH Director

Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center.  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. He was also the director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to 1999 and the 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute from 2010 to 2015, a post to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama.

"Today our technological advancements are occurring at a breathtaking pace.

Magnificent breakthroughs are discovered each day, many of which will enhance our lives while, at the same time, saving our world from imminent ecological disaster.

However, the darker side effects created by some of these marvelous miracles of innovation are quite sure to lead to the manipulation and destruction of the human race!" - Mark A. LeCuyer

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