Wednesday, September 5 @ 8 PM: Our 1st Anniversary Lecture
Nobel-Prize-Winning Biological Warrior Harold Varmus

The co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for groundbreaking research on the genetic origins of cancer, Dr. Harold Varmus lectures on why he left the study of literature to become a doctor, the future of cancer research, and making the world’s scientific literature freely available through public digital libraries and open-access journals. (Check out the Public Library of Science at www.plos.org !)

As current president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, and long-time professor of microbiology, biochemistry, and biophysics, Dr. Varmus has advanced fundamental scientific knowledge and grappled with one of medicine’s most formidable challenges.

Referring to Beowulf, Dr. Varmus has said of his scientific journey, “In our adventures, we have ... seen our monster more clearly and described his scales and fangs in new ways—ways that reveal a cancer cell to be, like Grendel, a distorted version of our normal selves.”