Harold
Varmus
President and Chief Executive Officer
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
2001
Biology
For his co-discovery of the cellular origins of retroviral oncogenes, which heralded a new era in the control of human cancer and for reinvigorating the nation's medical research enterprise.
Presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on June 12, 2002.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1989