Varmus

“All hands should be on deck, working to persuade Republican senators to oppose this threat to health and science,” says former NIH Director Harold Varmus.

For example, biomedical leaders, such as Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, who led NIH in the 1990s, have often decried NIH’s sprawling set of 27 institutes and centers, many focused on specific diseases.

"It is well known that cancer cells continue to evolve, especially to escape the pressure of effective treatments," said Dr. Varmus.

"It is very difficult to study this process in human patients. So my aim was to uncover the mechanism underlying the transformation of lung adenocarcinoma to small cell lung cancer in a mouse model," said study lead Dr. Eric Gardner, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Harold Varmus, the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine and a member of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Quoting the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Varmus, Brawley said that “if you want to divide the American population into more races than one, that’ fine, but in terms of biology, that’s like trying to slice soup.”