Topic: Harold Varmus

Stem Cell Theory Unlocks Secrets of Cancer Recurrence

Big Think - 334 days ago
Think Tank Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) . The drones are expendable. Just ask the Queen Bee of any hive, or the Mothership of any B-movie alien...

When Will We Cure Cancer?

Big Think - 337 days ago
Siddhartha Mukherjee: The former NCI director, Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach established an ambitious goal of eliminating the suffering and death due...

Do We Need to Cure Cancer?

Big Think - 338 days ago
Bold predictions have been made in the past about ending cancer. A 1969 advertisement in the New York Times famously said, "Mr Nixon, you can cure...

How Genetics Is Revolutionizing Cancer Research

Big Think - 341 days ago
Siddhartha Mukherjee: Tell us a little bit about what the Cancer Genome tells us about the genetics of cancer and what we have learned from the...

Can Cancer Cure Itself?

Big Think - 346 days ago
Siddhartha Mukherjee: So we talked a little bit about the cancers arising. Dr. Schwartzentruber, tell me a little bit about do cancers ever go away ...

The Best Cancer Treatment: No Treatment?

Big Think - 347 days ago
There are two major problems in cancer diagnosis, problems that seem paradoxically opposed. The first is under-diagnosis: colon cancer, breast...

Lung Cancer Screening Promises Big Benefits, Big Costs

Science - 463 days ago
One of the biggest clinical trials ever run by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) came to an end today with hopeful but budget-threatening news. NCI Director Harold Varmus announced at a press conference that the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) has been ...

Cancer Chief Varmus Draws Up a List of Unsolved Mysteries

Science - 485 days ago
Harold Varmus has made a start on one of his first priorities as chief of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI): coming up with a set of key unanswered questions. The "big questions" project was one of several ideas Varmus threw ...

More on Obama's Pick for NCI

Science - 592 days ago
President Barack Obama today announced that he plans to appoint Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Harold Varmus director of the $5.1 billion National Cancer Institute. ) But it is a surprise that Varmus, age 70, who directed the entire National Institutes of Health ...

A Fight Over Open Access and Patent Reform

Science - 592 days ago
In open-access news, the powerful chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, John Conyers (D-MI), has explained why he believes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) should not require scientists it funds to make their research papers publicly available ...