1982 Award Winner - Harold E. Varmus 1982 Award Winner - Harold E. Varmus

Contributor(s): Anna M. Rosenberg Associates Bakal, Carl Publication: Produced: 17 November 1982 Language(s): No linguistic content Format: Still image Subject(s): Awards and Prizes Genre(s): Archival Materials Photographic prints Portraits Abstract: CAPTION: WINNER OF A 1982 ALBERT LASKER BASIC MEDICAL RESEARCH AWARD. . . Harold E. Varmus, M.D., Professor of Microbiology, University of California, San Francisco, named a winner of the 1982 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. The announcement was made today by Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, President of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Dr. Varmus, working in collaboration with his colleague, J. Michael Bishop, M.D., Professor of Microbiology, University of California, San Francisco, was honored for his discovery that "oncogenes," or cancer-causing genes, are present in all normal cells.. Dr. Varmus shares his $15,000 Award with four other scientists. (In addition to Dr. Bishop, they are Hidesaburo Hanfuso, Ph.D., Professor, Rockefeller University, New York City; Raymond L. Erikson, Ph.D., Professor of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Robert C. Gallo, M.D., Director, Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.) Copyright: This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use. Extent: 1 pages NLM Unique ID: 101584926X214 (See in Profiles in Science) Profiles in Science ID: MVBBNS Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584926X214 Archival Collection: The Harold Varmus Papers (Profiles in Science)