Harold E. Varmus

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

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These are some quotes by American author Harold E. Varmus Scientist, who was born on December 18, 1939.

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I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

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