National Cancer Institute
at the National Institutes of Health
Comments and Commentary
- Written Testimony on Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request (Senate)
March 28, 2012
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Committee on Appropriations; United States Senate - Written Testimony on Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request (House)
March 20, 2012
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Committee on Appropriations; United States House of Representatives - Interview with NPR’s Science Friday
December 23, 2011 - MedScape One On One Interviews Harold Varmus
December 21, 2011
Interview with Science - Interview with The Cancer Letter
July 22, 2011 and July 29th, 2011 - Interview with Nature
Published online July 6, 2011
Nature 475, 18 (2011) - Written Testimony on Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request
May 11, 2011
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Committee on Appropriations; United States Senate - Federal Coach: Talking Leadership with National Cancer Institute's Harold Varmus
March 23, 2011
Washington Post - The Purpose and Conduct of Science
March 9, 2011
Rede Lecture (As Delivered)
University of Cambridge - The Writing Life of Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Harold Varmus
September 19, 2010
Washington Post - Benjamin DeMott Lecture
August 30, 2010
Amherst College - Harold Varmus: How I Became a Scientist
August 2010
iBioMagazine
Previous Comments and Commentary
- A conversation with Harold Varmus
August 2009
Charlie Rose - Book TV: Harold Varmus "The Art and Politics of Science "
May 13, 2009
CSPAN-2 - Harold Varmus on Medical School, Cancer Biology and Nobel Prize
March 17, 2009
WNYC Radio - The U.S. Commitment to Global Health
December 16, 2008
David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture - Progress toward Public Access to Science
April 8, 2008
PLoS Biology - Enhancing the Contract: The Federal Government and American Science in a New
Administration
April 3, 2008
Harvard university Kennedy School of Government Science & Democracy Lecture Series - 2007 Atkinson Forum in American Studies
April 30, 2007
Atkinson Forum in American Studies - The Future of Science in the 21st Century
April 16, 2007
Amherst College - Freeing Scientific Culture: The Fight to Provide Public Access to Results the Public Finances
March 26-27, 2007
Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship Lectures - Free Radical
June 2006
WIRED - Is Science Under Siege?
November 16, 2005
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1895th Stated Meeting - Downstate Medical School Graduation
May 24, 2005 - Carey Lecture - AAAS Policy Meeting
April 22, 2004 - Managing Biomedical Research to Prevent and Cure Disease in the 21st Century
October 2, 2003 - Caltech Commencement Address
June 13, 2003 - NYU School of Medicine Commencement Address
May 15, 2003 - Testimony on Smoking in Public Places and Places of Employment
October 10, 2002
New York City Council - Nobel Foundation's Centennial Speech
December 6-8, 2001
Nobel Foundation's Centennial Symposia: Beyond Genes - Convocation Talk at Lawrence University
April 30, 2002 - Lasker Awards Luncheon
September 21, 2001
Role of Government in Research - A discussion about the causes of cancer
July 13, 2000
Charlie Rose - A discussion about mapping the human genome
June 21, 2000
Charlie Rose - Wesleyan University Commencement Address
May 28, 2000 - Washington University School of Medicine Commencement Address
May 19, 2000 - An interview with Harold Varmus
October 8, 1999
Charlie Rose - The Impact of Physics on Biology and Medicine
March 22, 1999
Plenary Talk, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society - Statement on the President's Budget Request for NIH
February 23-24, 1999
House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education - NIH Director's Statement on Research Using Stem Cells
January 26, 1999
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies - New Developments in Medical Research: NIH and Patient Groups
March 26, 1998
House Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Environment - New Directions in Biology and Medicine -- AAAS Plenary Lecture
February 13, 1998
American Association for the Advancement of Science - Statement before Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety
October 9, 1997
Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety; Committee on Labor and Human Resources; United States Senate - Stanford Medical School Graduation Speech
June 15, 1997 - Commencement Talk, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
May 21, 1997 - Harvard University Commencement Address
June 6, 1996 - Medical School Commencement Talk: Mayo Clinic
May 18, 1996 - Shattuck Lecture -- Biomedical Research Enters the Steady State (PDF)
May 20, 1995
Presented as the 105th Shattuck Lecture; to the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society - Defending the Nation's Health: Building on the Basics
March 14, 1995 - American Society for Microbiology National Meeting
May 26, 1994 - Keynote Lecture: Basic Science and the NIH: American Society for Cell Biology Meeting
December 11, 1993