The National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has released an extensive selection of the papers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center President Harold Varmus on its Profiles in Science Web site. Dr. Varmus is the 20th notable scientist to be featured on the site.
The online exhibition features correspondence, laboratory and lecture notes, research proposals, a large selection of published research articles, and photographs. It also includes documents related to his role in leading the international committee that first proposed the name for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Before coming to Memorial Sloan-Kettering in 2000, Dr. Varmus had been Director of the NIH for nearly seven years. In 1989, while at the University of California, San Francisco, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with longtime collaborator J. Michael Bishop, for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
The site can be accessed at
profiles.nlm.nih.gov/MV/.
