The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Harold Varmus
Title:
President and Chief Executive Officer
Affiliation:
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Gender:
Male
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
2001
Citation:
"For his co-discovery of the cellular origins of retroviral oncogenes, which heralded a new era in the control of human cancer and for reinvigorating the nation's medical research enterprise."
Presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on June 12, 2002.
Nobel Laureate:
Physiology or Medicine, 1989