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Harold Varmus

In conversation with Roy Eisenhardt

Monday, March 29, 2010  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Harold Varmus won the 1989 Nobel Prize, along with longtime collaborator Dr. Michael Bishop, for their groundbreaking research into the genetic basis of cancer. Much of Varmus and Bishop's work was conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, where Varmus was a faculty member for 23 years. As the Director of the National Institutes of Health under the Clinton administration, Varmus sought to increase public access to scientific papers, and to this end, co-founded the Public Library of Science, a nonprofit, open-access publisher, and continues to be a vocal advocate for science in the public forum and in government policy-making. Under his leadership the NIH research budget nearly doubled in a span of five years. Varmus is currently the President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where he continues his work on the cutting edge of both cancer research and patient care. He has written hundreds of articles, and four books, the most recent of which is The Art and Politics of Science.

Roy Eisenhardt practiced law for twelve years in San Francisco and taught at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. He was President of the Oakland Athletics and served as the Executive Director for the California Academy of Sciences for five years.

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