"All basic scientists who look to the NCI……" — Harold E. Varmus
"All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles."
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Harold E. Varmus
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22 Quotes by Harold E. Varmus
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There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long…
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of…
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship…
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of…
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians…
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals…
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I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort…
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the…
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more…
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we…
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