Harold E. Varmus

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989

“for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”

Harold E. Varmus is an American physician-scientist and cancer researcher. He shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. His work helped establish that cancer-causing genes in retroviruses have normal cellular counterparts.