Title:

1982 Award Winner - Harold E. Varmus

Creator:

Anna M. Rosenberg Associates
Bakal, Carl

Date:

17 November 1982

Description:

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.)

Rights:

Courtesy of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. and http://www.laskerfoundation.org/

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Genre:

Photographic prints
Portraits

Subject:

Awards and Prizes

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy Source Citation:

Free Text. MS C 415, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation - Albert Lasker Awards Archives, 1944- , Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, USA.. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. B09738

Legacy ID:

MVBBNS

NLM ID:

101584926X214

Profiles Collection:

The Harold Varmus Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584926X214

Story Section:

AIDS and HIV: Science, Politics, and Controversy, 1981-1993