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Visit of Prof. Harold Varmus, the Nobel Prize laureate, at the Nencki Institute

Prof. Harold Varmus, the 1989 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology/Medicine for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, visited the Nencki Institute on September 22nd, 2025. Prof. Varmus served as the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH; 1993-1999), was the President and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City (2000-2010) and the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the NIH (2010-2015). Since 2015 he is the Lewis Thomas ...